Zharagash

Zharagash is a salt lake in Zhelezin District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.
The lake lies to the east of Mayly village, about west of the Kazakhstan-Russia border, and to the WSW of Kupino, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russian Federation.

Geography

Zharagash is part of the Irtysh basin. It is a steppe lake of the Baraba Plain, located about to the southwest of Lake Chany, the largest lake of the area, on the other side of the border. The Kyzyltuz lake group, with pink lake Krasnovishnevoye on the Russian side, lies to the south.
The shores of the lake are flat, with two big indentations on the western side and a long projection in the east. The water is salty and its salinity increases in the summer, when it often dries up, becoming a salt marsh.

Flora and fauna

The environment of Zharagash is too strongly saline to support any fauna in its waters. Reeds and grasses grow in some stretches of the salt marshes surrounding the lake.