Ulken Azhbolat (; , Bolshoy Azhbulat) is a bittern salt lake in Uspen District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.Lakes in the Central Kazakhstan
The lake lies to the NNE of Pavlodar town, north of Uspenka, the district capital, and west of Lozovoye. There are mirabilite deposits in the lake area.Donald E. Garrett, Sodium Sulfate: Handbook of Deposits, Processing, Properties, and Use, p. 196
Geography Lake Ulken Azhbolat is an endorheic lake located in the Kulunda Steppe, southern part of the West Siberian Plain, west of the Russian border. There is an elongated island in the middle of the lake. The Burla river flows into the eastern lakeshore.Google Earth In years of adequate rainfall the river reaches the lake, but in dry years it ends in Lake Bolshoye Topolnoye, located to the east, on the other side of the Kazakhstan–Russia border.Бурла; Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. — Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)
There are smaller lakes in the immediate vicinity of Ulken Azhbolat, including Kishi Azhbolat (Кіші Әжболат), an intermittent lake on the eastern side, as well as Lake Klevkino (Клевкино) on the southern. Lake Shagan straddles the international border to the northeast, Ulken Tobylzhan lies to the south, lake Burlinskoye to the ESE, lake Bolshoye Yarovoye to the southeast and lake Kyzyltuz to the northwest.Google Earth
See also List of lakes of Kazakhstan
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Джурбай едет на озеро Большой Ажбулат