Shoshkaly (; ) is a salt lake in Beskaragay District, Abai Region, Kazakhstan.
The lake is about west of the Russia-Kazakhstan border. Tosagash village is to the north, Begen to the ESE and Beskaragay, the district capital, to the southeast. The border of Pavlodar Region stretches close to the northern lakeshore.
Geography Shoshkaly is an endorheic lake part of the Irtysh basin. It lies in a tectonic depression at the southern end of the Kulunda Plain. Lake Tuz stretches to the northwest, Uyaly to the WNW, Sormoildy to the northeast, and lake Tengizsor to the southwest. River Irtysh flows to the WSW.
Shoshkaly consists in three connected lakes, of which the southern is the largest one.Google Maps - Ozero Shoshkaly The lakes are oriented in a roughly southeast–northwest direction. Shoshkaly doesn't dry out in the summer and doesn't freeze in the winter. The M38 Highway from the Border of Russia to Pavlodar and Semey (Semipalatinsk), passes to the southwest of the lake.Google EarthNature of Kazakhstan Encyclopedia / General editor. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia" LLP, 2011. T.Z. - 304 pages. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T.Z.), ISBN 9965-893-19-5
Flora and fauna Lake Shoshkaly is surrounded by steppe vegetation.
See also List of lakes of Kazakhstan
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