Guvlymayak (Russian:, Turkmen:Guwlymaýak) is a town in Türkmenbaşy District, Balkan Province of Turkmenistan adjacent to the Caspian Sea.[1] There is a lighthouse.
The settlement was founded c. 1931 by a group of Kazakhs, who fled their republic during the contemporaneous famine.
The local economy was originally dependent on salt which is mined from an adjacent lake. "Guwlyduz”, the salt-processing unit — formerly, the Kuuli-sol complex — is the oldest chemical plant in Turkmenistan; it remains the major supplier for not only edible salt but also industrial salt.[2] Post upgradations in 2019, Guwlyduz had an annual production capacity of 40 kilotonnes of iodised salt. Today the town also serves as a bedroom community for the nearby polymer factory at Kiyanly (Turkmen:Gyýanly) and urea plant at Garabogaz.
In 2018, the Government floated a tender for construction of a "sturgeon farm" and a "fish processing facility."[3]