Valleys in Zailiysky Alatau.

"Fatigue will save you from unnecessary doubts,
And the cold will help you forget your worries,
And the tired foreheads of the silver mountains will bend, moving the shadows with wrinkles"

Yuri Kukin. "Driven by the Wind". August 8, 1967.

Information about Almaty and its surroundings.

Mynzhylky valley (Kazakh: Mynzhylky, from the words myn - a thousand, many and zhylky - a horse, a mountain plateau suitable for grazing thousands of horses) is located at an altitude of 3,000 to 3,300 meters above sea level, in the upper reaches of Maloalmatinsky gorge, 3.2 kilometers to north and slightly west of the tongue of Tuyuk-Su glacier, 3.1 kilometers to south of Tuyuk-Su valley, 23.1 kilometers to southeast of Almaty, in Medeu district of Almaty. 
The Mynzhylky valley is located north of the source of the Malaya Almaatinka River. The tract is surrounded by the Tuyuk-Su glaciers. The climate is mountainous, the average annual temperature is 2.7 degrees, there is snow 237 days a year, precipitation is 743 millimeters per year.
Mynzhylky is a wide flat valley with steep slopes, about 4 kilometers long. In the vicinity of Mynzhylky, the bedrock is represented by red and tempo-pink granites. The soils are mountainous and meadow, in the lower reaches - swampy, peaty.
The landscape of Mynzhylky is characterized by alpine and subalpine meadows with a rich variety of herbs (kobresia, bluegrass, Siberian lady's mantle, gentian, hairy aster, sedge, etc.). Since 1936, the Mynzhylky hydrometeorological station has been operating in the valley, which monitors the weather and the regime of the Malaya Almatinka River all year round.
It is impossible to see the entire panorama of the Tuyuksu glacier cirque from the dam, since it is blocked by a high moraine rampart in the upper reaches of the tract. Only Ordzhonikidze and Tuyuksu peaks are visible. In the northeast, the Yoshkar-Ola peak rises above the right slope of the valley.
In the northern direction from the Mynzhylky valley, on the right in the ridge above the road, you can see the rocky bastion of the Yoshkar-Ola peak. From the weather station, you can climb along the trail to a popular campsite called "Alpingrad", located in the cirque of the Manshuk Mametova glacier at the foot of the Amangeldy and Pioneer peaks.
From here, a panorama opens onto the central part of the Tuyuksu glacier and the spur of the Kumbel ridge in the west, where the Lokomotiv, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (the first woman to be posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War), Molodezhnaya, and Titova peaks are located. 
Geographic coordinates of Mynzhylky valley: N43°05'00 E77°04'34

Authority:
Brief Encyclopedia of the Kazakh SSR, volume 2 “Nature”, Alma-Ata, 1990. Ecyclopedia "Alma-Ata", 1983. Alma-Ata. Editor-in-Chief M.K. Kozybaev.
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Photos by:
Alexander Petrov.