Kishi-Karoy
Kishi-Karoy or Kishi Karaoy, meaning "Little Karoy", is a bittern salt lake in Akzhar District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan.
The Kazakhstan–Russia border lies about to the northwest and northeast of the northern shores of the lake. Kishi-Karoy village, formerly Kievskoye, Bostandyk, Baytus and Kenashchi, formerly Menzhinskoye, are the nearest inhabited localities.
Geography
Kishi-Karoy lies in the southern part of the Ishim Plain, the southernmost sector of the West Siberian Plain. It is an endorheic lake located at the bottom of a depression. Larger lake Ulken-Karoy lies to the east and Kalibek and Alabota to the southwest. Lake Ebeyty lies to the NNE, on the Russian side of the border. In the summer Kishi-Karoy shrinks and becomes hypersaline and in years of drought the lake may dry completely up.Kishi-Karoy is surrounded by salt marshes. The bottom is flat, in parts clayey. The lake is mainly fed by snow. No significant rivers feed its waters.