Wildlife Tours in West Altai Reserve.

“Altai mountains are located in the north-east of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan includes southern and northern parts of Altai between 48 and 51 degrees north latitude, 82 and 88 degrees east longitude. Kazakhstan Altai occupies almost a tenth of the territory of the republic”

Encyclopedia of Kazakhstan. Volume 4, 1991.

Flower Tours in West Altai Reserve.

Tcherbakova Lake is located in the northwestern part of Kedrovoye Lake at an altitude of 1775 meters above sea level. The distance from Lake Kedrovoy to Lake Tcherbakova is 1.5 kilometers. Earlier, Shcherbakova Lake was named Listvyazhnoye, and in 2002 it received the name Shcherbakova Lake.
The lake is named after natural scientist Boris Tcherbakov. This was done by decision of the Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan during the compilation of a map of reserves.
Shcherbakova Lake is located on the territory of the West-Altai Reserve, which was created on the initiative of B. Shcherbakov, in the Ridder district of East Kazakhstan region. The path to the lake is very picturesque and runs along the northern slope of the Ulba Range.
The length of Tcherbakova Lake is 306 meters and the greatest width is 154 meters, the greatest depth is 40 meters. The depth of the lake was investigated by employees of the East Kazakhstan Ministry of Emergency Situations in August 2019.
The shores of the lake are steep, inaccessible and only in the western part at the place where a small river flows into the lake, you can easily set out to the shore of the lake. Steep slopes of the Ulba ridge adjoin the lake from the south.
On the eastern, northern and western sides of the lake is in the coniferous frame of trees mainly consisting of cedar. The lake is closed, the filtration from the lake is carried out by groundwater.

Authority and photos:
Alexander Petrov.