Stanovoye (), is a salt lake in Mamlyut District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan.Lakes in the Central Kazakhstan
The lake is located to the SW of Mamlyut, the district capital, and to the WSW of Petropavl city, the regional capital. Stanovoye village lies to the north of the northern lakeshore.ATAMEKEN: Geographical Encyclopedia. / General ed. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. - 648 pages. ISBN 9965-893-70-5
Geography Stanovoye is an endorheic lake belonging to the Ishim River basin. It is located in an area dotted with small lakes at the southern edge of the Ishim Plain, part of the West Siberian Plain. The lake has an elongated shape, stretching from north to south for over . It has a shallow bay opening to the southeastern end. There are four small lakes close to its eastern lakeshore.
Stanovoye is fed by rain and snow. The bottom of the lake is muddy and the mud is reputed to have medicinal properties. Lake Menkeser lies to the southwest and lake Alua to the south. Lakes Akush and Siverga are located at the Kazakhstan–Russia border roughly to the northeast, and Medvezhye to the NNW, to the north of the border.Google Earth
Flora Typha and other kind of reeds grow in stretches of the lakeshore. The agricultural fields and pasture land surrounding the lake are used by the adjacent settlements.
See also List of lakes of Kazakhstan
References
External links
Saline lakes of Northern Kazakhstan: Geochemical correlations of elements and controls on their accumulation in water and bottom sediments