Menkeser (; ) or Mangisor (), also known as Bulandy (), 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 SW of Petropavl city, the regional capital. Mengeser village lies to the north and Troitskoye village to the WSW of the western lakeshore.ATAMEKEN: Geographical Encyclopedia. / General ed. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia", 2011. - 648 pages. ISBN 9965-893-70-5
Geography Menkeser is an endorheic lake belonging to the Ishim River basin. It is located at the southern edge of the Ishim Plain, part of the West Siberian Plain. It has an oval shape, with a bay in the eastern side with a small island between the landspits delimiting the bay. The shores are flat and the bottom of the lake is covered in greenish silt with a thickness between and .
The lake is surrounded by agricultural fields and pasture land. It is fed by rain and snow. Lake Alua lies to the southeast, Stanovoye to the northeast, and lake Filatovo to the northwest, just beyond the Kazakhstan–Russia border.Google Earth
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