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18-585: The Tielieketi military incident between Soviet and Chinese border troops (known in Soviet sources as "the border conflict near Lake Zhalanashkol " ( Russian : пограничный конфликт у озера Жаланашколь ) occurred on August 13, 1969, during the Sino-Soviet border conflict . The Soviet force eliminated a unit of about 30 Chinese soldiers, capturing four. Soviet sources allege the August 13 clash between Soviet border guards and

36-562: A Chinese force happened after persistent violation of the Chinese-Soviet border by Chinese soldiers starting the previous night. According to these sources, the Chinese military unit which took part in the incident was equipped with cameras and a professional video camera. After the Soviet Union dissolved in 1990s, Tielieketi was administered by Kazakhstan. In 1999, China and Kazakhstan signed

54-518: A joint declaration to resolve their long-term border issues, and Tielieketi was ceded to Xinjiang, China. 45°35′00″N 82°17′00″E  /  45.58333°N 82.28333°E  / 45.58333; 82.28333 This article about a battle in Russian history is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lake Zhalanashkol Lake Zhalanashkol ( Kazakh : Жалаңашкөл , literally "Bare Lake", or "Exposed Lake"; Russian : Жаланашколь )

72-544: A wide strip of submerged reeds. In its geological past, the Zhalanashkol may have been the southernmost bay of the larger Lake Alakol . However, now the valley that connects the two lakes has been filled with sediment. Seasonally (when the water level in the Zhalanashkol is at its highest), water drains from the Zhalanashkol to the Alakol along the 10-km long slough called Zhaman-Otkel ( Russian : Жаман-Откель ). No rivers reach

90-533: Is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve located in Kazakhstan , within the desert zone of Eurasia in the central part of the Alakol inter-mountain depression. The 193,089 hectares (745.52 sq mi) reserve lies on the Central Asian–Indian bird migration route. The wetlands of the reserve are of global significance as a habitat and as a nesting site for water birds. The Alakol State Nature Reserve manages

108-608: Is a freshwater lake in the eastern part of Kazakhstan , on the border of Almaty Province ( Alakol District ) and East Kazakhstan Province ( Urzhar District ). It is the smallest out of the four major lakes of the Alakol depression (the other three being the Alakol , the Sasykkol , and the Koshkarkol ). It is also the southernmost of the four, the one closest to the Dzungarian Gate and

126-454: Is characterized by medicinal properties. The shores of the lake are flat and annually flooded, sometimes swampy with reeds. Along the wetlands there is a lot of salty clay with rotted lake vegetation, which is actively used for balneological purposes by the local population and tourists. The sloping banks are gravelly and pebbly, in the Eastern part of the coast is steep, in the southern-swampy, with

144-564: The Aibi Lake on the other, Chinese, side of the Gate. On the maps compiled in the 18th and 19th century the Zhalanashkol is labeled Taskol (literally "Stone Lake"); this name is now obsolete. On the border with the mountain ranges formed depression, in which there was an accumulation of wastewater flowing into rivers, creating isolated water bodies. In these desert areas with a dry continental climate and very little precipitation, water consumption in

162-416: The Alakol - Sasykkol lake system and is situated at the limits of the Alakol depression, delimited by Tarbagatai ridge in the north, Dzhungarian Alatau in the south, and Barlyk ridge in the east and south-east. The biosphere reserve lies on the Central Asian–Indian bird migration route and is a wetland of global significance as a habitat and aggregation site for water birds. This territory, inscribed on

180-531: The Greater Flamingo ( Phoenicopterus roseus ) and the Ferruginous Duck ( Aythya nyroca ), among others. In the main and buffer zones there are 269 recorded bird species, of which 110 are water birds. These are prevalent in spring and especially during autumn migrations. The biosphere reserve contains 678 species of higher plants and 25 plant species of aquatic flora, including two plant species listed on

198-656: The Ramsar Convention 's Internationally Important Wetlands List in 2009, is the nesting habitat for 203 bird species out of the 342 registered here. More than half of these nesting species (110) are water birds, 22 of which are rare and endangered and are listed on the Red Data Books of Kazakhstan and IUCN. These include the Dalmatian Pelican ( Pelecanus crispus ), the Eurasian Spoonbill ( Platalea leucorodia ),

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216-528: The Turkestan–Siberia Railway and China's Lanzhou–Xinjiang Railway ) runs along the lake's eastern shore. The Zhalanashkol Railway Station is located there ( 45°36′00″N 82°11′00″E  /  45.60000°N 82.18333°E  / 45.60000; 82.18333 ); a Kazakhstan border patrol station of the same name is nearby. The highway to Dostyk runs on the lake's west side. A Sino-Soviet border conflict , which took place in August 1969 in

234-469: The Red Data Book of Kazakhstan: Tulipa kolpakowskiana and Tulipa brachystemon . About 40 per cent of all floristic diversity found in the reserve is represented by economically important species. The main plant associations are represented by five main types – desert, meadow, marsh, tugai and underwater – and fragmentally by two more types – shrub and large-leaved forest. The biosphere reserve has

252-574: The Zhalanashkol. (The Terekty River flows toward Zhalanashkol from the mountains of China's Yumin County , but reaches the lake only in the form of a usually dry alluvial fan .) The lake is fed by ground water, and by seasonal runoff of rainwater or snow meltwater from the surrounding area. The lake is usually frozen until late March. Lake Zhalanashkol is part of the Alakol Nature Reserve . The Aktogay - Dostyk (Kazakhstan's connector between

270-577: The area. The Alakol-Sasykkol system of lakes occupies a desert depression between the mountain systems of the Jungar Alatau and Tarbagatai in the South-Eastern part of Kazakhstan. In the center of the depression is a system of large lakes: Alakol, Sasykkol, Koshkarkol, Zhalanashkol. The territory of the reserve is scattered throughout the basin and is divided into 6 geographical areas: the Northern coast of

288-473: The drainless lakes occurred due to evaporation more intensively than the arrival of new water, which led to a gradual accumulation of salt minerals and other products, which caused the water in the lake to periodically become salty. Zhalanashkol has no permanent tributaries, the water regime is maintained by ground nutrition and a small amount of rain and snowmelt water. Fresh water with insignificant mineralization, sulphate-bicarbonate-sodium from 1.2 to 5 g/L. it

306-607: The hills east of the lake, has been known in the USSR and post-Soviet states as the "Lake Zhalanashkol incident". In China it is known as the Tielieketi incident, based on the name of a locality on the Chinese side on the border, itself coming from the Terekty River . This Kazakhstan location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alakol Nature Reserve The Alakol Biosphere Reserve (established 2013)

324-711: The lake. Sasykkol and the Thousand lakes system; the Delta of the Tentek river; the Araltobe Islands on the lake. The Alakol lake; the Delta of the rivers Emel and Suganthi; Small Alakol Bay; East coast of oz. Zhalanashkol and the tract Kizilkian in Dzungarian gate. Also, according to the forest Management project, the territory is divided into 12 inspection rounds, and they, in turn, are divided into blocks. The biosphere reserve includes

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