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For casual visitors at first glance may seem Mangistau colorless withered, tired and sun burnt by the wind. For people buried in this land back - is a blessed land. Each stone carries a history of the peoples who once inhabited the Mangistau.

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One of the deepest drainage basins of the Commonwealth of Independent Countries, the fifth largest basin is Karaki. Its depth is known to any student - 132 m. The length of about fifty miles. Karaka is part of the Ustyurt bluffs basin is composed of Neogene sediments. The upper part of the depression of the Sarmatian rag, the central part of the same - from soft, easily lend themselves to the destruction of clay rocks. Mudslides, wind, fossil river channels of their deformed shape relief of depression. From the height of the depression's interesting to see the neighborhood - away misty haze blanketed the horizon, and near the gulf, breathtaking. No wonder "Karaka" in translation from Turkic means "black mouth". Appear velvety hills surrounding feast for the eyes of passing travelers. Depression Karaki in the distant past was part of the Caspian Sea, was filled with sea abyss, and stood out in the Gulf Karagiye. It is in this form captures Gulf Karagiye on the map, which was a research scientist at the Eastern Caspian, Alexander Bekovich-Cherkasky. The north-eastern escarpment of depression Karaki preserved historical monuments, sites of ancient peoples. Once in the hollow cavity located salt lake, called Batir ( "brave warrior"). The scientists, ethnographers, historians had still argue, in honor of a batir named this lake. According to one version, on mountain tops bordering the lake, many years in a combat patrol conducted Ep Tulep Anetuly. Preserved patrol altitude, referred to as "upland Tulepa" ( "Tulep shokysy"). Nearby survived several parking lots with wells in which Tulep poil his horse.

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Zhanaozen is located on the Mangyshlak plateau (Mangystau). The town was founded in 1968. Today it is subordinate to Mangystau region of Kazakhstan. The main industry of Zhanaozen is oil and gas production. There is a gas-transfering factory.

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