Official Name: | Saryshaghan |
Other Name: | Saryşağan |
Native Name: | kaz. Сарышаған, Saryşağan |
Pushpin Map: | Kazakhstan |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 280 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Karagandy Province, Aqtogay, Kazakhstan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name: | Kazakhstan |
Subdivision Name1: | Karaganda Region |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1956 |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Timezone Dst: | UTC+6 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +6 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 100314 |
Saryshaghan (Kazakh: Сарышаған, Saryşağan) is a town in Kazakhstan located on the coast of Lake Balkhash at Latitude (DMS): 46° 7' 9 N Longitude (DMS): 73° 37' 9 E in Karaganda Region. Its population is estimated at 11,000 inhabitants.
Sary Shagan is a site of the major antiballistic missile defense test range in the Soviet Union.[1] The first nonnuclear intercept of a ballistic missile warhead by a missile was accomplished there on 4 March 1961.
Saryshaghan has a cold desert climate (Köppen: BWk)[2] with very cold winters and hot summers.