| Ulken Azhbolat | |
| Other Name: | Үлкен Әжболат / Большой Ажбулат |
| Coords: | 53.2786°N 77.4142°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Kazakhstan |
| Length: | 16km (10miles) |
| Width: | 12km (07miles) |
| Elevation: | 93m (305feet) |
| Islands: | One |
Ulken Azhbolat (Kazakh: Үлкен Әжболат; Russian: Большой Ажбулат, Bolshoy Azhbulat) is a bittern salt lake in Uspen District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.[1] [2]
The lake lies 100km (100miles) to the NNE of Pavlodar town, 45km (28miles) north of Uspenka, the district capital, and 10km (10miles) west of Lozovoye.There are mirabilite deposits in the lake area.[3]
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.[4] In years of adequate rainfall the river reaches the lake, but in dry years it ends in Lake Bolshoye Topolnoye, located 22km (14miles) to the east, on the other side of the Kazakhstan–Russia border.[5]
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 Ulken Tobylzhan lies 45km (28miles) to the south, lake Burlinskoye 57km (35miles) to the ESE, lake Bolshoye Yarovoye 77km (48miles) to the southeast and lake Kyzyltuz 60km (40miles) to the northwest.[6]
