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Glaciers of Almaty reserve.

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«A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature»

Henry David Thoreau.

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All large rivers and lakes of the Almaty national natural reserve receive the main food from thawing of glaciers which in the reserve there is a lot of.
Only on North side of the ridge of their Zailiysky Ala-Tau there are 113.
The largest of them is located in a river basin Average Talgar - a glacier of Shokalsky, nearly 5 kilometers long. It pulses with frequency in 20 - 24 years.
Language of a glacier cracked on numerous parts of ice and quickly moves down.
On South side of the ridge Zailiysky Ala-Tau, at river Chilik sources, is located powerful mountain knot of a modern freezing where there are 86 glaciers.
The largest of them - Korzhenevsky glacier, long about 12 kilometers and the Bogatyr - more than 8 kilometers long.

Natural sights of the Almaty reserve.Natural sights of the Almaty reserve.Natural sights of the Almaty reserve.Natural sights of the Almaty reserve.Natural sights of the Almaty reserve.Natural sights of the Almaty reserve.Natural sights of the Almaty reserve.Natural sights of the Almaty reserve.Natural sights of the Almaty reserve.

Authority:
Ishkov E. Reserves of Central Asia and Kazakhstan. Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2006. Under the general edition of Roman Yashchenko. The international union of conservation of IUCN - The World Conservation Union. Physiographic features (across Kerteshev, Vagapov, Yashchenko, 2001). 

Photos
Alexander Petrov.