Jaisangbo, also known as Zaisang Lake, is located in the upper reaches of the Irtysh River and is a typical freshwater lake.The Irtysh River, which originates on the border between China and Mongolia, flows for more than 500 kilometers in Xinjiang Province of China, and finally breaks through the mountain blockade between the Altai Mountains and the Tarbagatai Mountains in northern Xinjiang, roaring all the way into the Zaisan Basin, and forming a lake about 110 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide in this basin.This lake is Jaisangbo.Before 1959, Jaisangpo had an area of only about 1,800 square kilometres and an average depth of about 5 metres.The clear waters of the Irtysh River have settled down here after rushing out of the mountains, making this Zaisangbo a famous land of abundance.However, in October 1864, China and Russia signed the "Sino-Russian Treaty on the Survey and Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary", in which Russia misinterpreted the relevant contents of the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing" with diplomatic fraud and threatened with force, and finally cut off a total of 440,000 square kilometers of land east and south of Lake Balkhash and north and south of Zaisangpo.Since then, this great river and mountain has become the territory of hairy bears.After the October Revolution in Russia, the Red Giant stood up and prepared to build reservoirs and hydropower stations in the upper reaches of the Irtysh River to make use of the abundant water resources in the upper reaches of the Irtysh River.Construction began in 1953 on the construction of a barrage about five kilometers upstream of the Irtysh town of Sherebryansk.The dam is a concrete gravity dam with a maximum height of 90 meters and a crest length of 380 meters.The dam was completed in 1959, and the 330-kilometre stretch of the river upstream of the dam, including Jaisangpo, was completed in 1959, and the dam was completed to form a new, huge reservoir called the Bukhtamar Reservoir.With an area of 5,490 square kilometers, the Bukhtamar Reservoir is the largest artificial reservoir in Kazakhstan and the fifth largest in the world.Even in the Soviet era, the reservoir was the second largest of all artificial reservoirs in the former Soviet Union, after the 6,450-square-kilometer Kuibyshev reservoir in the middle reaches of the Volga and lower Kama rivers.After the completion of the Bukhtamar Reservoir, the average water depth of Jaisangbo has increased from 5 meters to 12 meters, and the deepest area of the entire Bukhtamar Reservoir is also 80 meters deep, and the total storage capacity of the entire reservoir is as high as 49.6 billion cubic meters, which is more than 10 billion cubic meters more than the storage capacity of the Three Gorges Reservoir in Huaxia.Now, Yang Jing and the others are driving in the Bukhtamar Reservoir.Although it is also surrounded by mountains, compared to the Ust-Kamenogorsk reservoir just past, the Bukhtamar reservoir is much wider, just after driving out of the canyon where the reservoir is located, there is a large area of water with a width of more than ten kilometers in front of it, this water area is only a small part of the entire reservoir, but it can fit the entire Tianqu urban area!
Yang Jing has seen the Caspian Sea, the world's largest lake, before, and has also been to the Xiaolangdi Reservoir, and even made a forced landing at the Toledo Bend Reservoir in the United States.Although the water of the Caspian Sea is also very clear, it is a saltwater lake after all, so the color of the water tends to be more oceanic, which is blue.Although the water in the Xiaolangdi Reservoir and the Toledo Bend Reservoir is also quite clear, the water in the Buchtamar Reservoir is still far behind.The water in this reservoir is extremely clear, and in the sunlight, the fish swimming three or four meters below the water can be seen clearly.After all, this is the upper reaches of the Irtysh River, and the meltwater from the snow-capped mountains has gathered here almost without any pollution, so the water here is naturally very clear.
(ps: Speaking of clear and clear water, Lao Mo suddenly remembered that he traveled to Sichuan and Shu last year, when Lao Mo went to Jiulong County, a small county town surrounded by mountains and three thousand meters above sea level of the county government.)There is a newly developed scenic spot in Jiulong County, called "Wuxu Sea View Area", the scenery there is really pristine, all around are snow-capped mountains, the snow-capped mountain meltwater flowing down from the snow-capped mountains is really clear and clean, Lao Mo poured a jar of water and drank it directly, which is called a clear and sweet) And now although it has entered October, the temperature has become quite low, but there is still a lot of green on the mountains around the reservoir, Those lush mountains and clear and calm reservoirs like a mirror complement each other, how can the scenery be described by the word "beauty"?"
The view is awesome!
If there weren't a lot of things that I couldn't let go, I really wanted to live here for three and a half years!
”Yang Jing stood on the deck, happily admiring the surrounding scenery, greedily breathing in the clear air, and involuntarily admiring.Old Ivan smiled and said, "Mr.
Yang, haven't you seen a better view?"
If you want to stay a little longer, we can turn east from the fork in the reservoir in front of us, find a pier to dock, and then take a helicopter to Zilanovsk in the east, and from that city, head east to the Katonkalagai State Nature Reserve, where the scenery is even more beautiful than here!
Of course, we can also continue and wait until we reach the bend in the reservoir, where we stop at Veliky Naremskoye, from where we can rent a car to Katonkaragai. ”"Yo?
Is the view from that reserve good?
”"Very good.Although it is not the best time to visit, it is also very good to be able to see more snow-capped mountains now. ”After a pause, the elder Ivan continued: "This reserve was established in 2001, with an area of nearly 650,000 hectares, and is a typical mountain-forest-meadow-grassland complex national forest park. ”"Well, if we have time, we'll go over and have a look."
Yang Jing said with a slight groan.Although this time I came out mainly for tourism, it is still very important to find the whereabouts of that batch of gold, and Yang Jing does not want to delay the business because of going to that national nature reserve.Old Ivan nodded, then pointed to the east shore of the lake and said, "Do you see that little city?"
That's the city of Nova Bukhtamar, and the railway line from Oskemen passes through this small city, and the terminus of this railway is Ziliangovsk, which I just mentioned, and a lot of mineral deposits have been found around that city, so it is also a city dominated by metallurgy.But from that city, you can go deep into the South Altai Mountains to the east, and there are many beautiful views inside. ”Yang Jing looked in the direction pointed by old Ivan, and found that the reservoir suddenly extended a far, far east from that location, and it was estimated that it would be at least thirty kilometers.However, in the distance, you can still see the looming treasure light, and it is clear that there is a large amount of mineral resources in that area."
This section of the reservoir was formed with the help of a section of the Belyozovka River, a tributary of the Irtysh River, and our boat is a little bigger, if it is smaller, we can go directly to Ziryanovsk along the river."
Yang Jing shook his head and said, "Forget it, let's honestly go straight along the reservoir."
By the way, where is that big Naremskoye you just said?
”"About 75 kilometers ahead, at the corner of the reservoir, it is a famous tourist city, and many people visit that city every year."
The bend in the reservoir that Ivan the Elder refers to is the first big bend in front of the Bukhtamar Reservoir.The Bukhtamar Reservoir is too big, with a length of 330 kilometers alone, because this section of the reservoir is formed with the help of the channel of the Irtysh River, so in the front, the direction of the reservoir will turn directly from the current northwest-southeast direction to a big bend of more than 100 degrees, and then the direction of the reservoir will become northeast-southwest.The location of the Great Naremskoye is about 80 kilometers from the Bukhtamar hydroelectric power plant, which means that by the time you reach the city upstream, you have almost covered a quarter of the way through the entire reservoir.This wide body of water is located exactly in the area where the Irtysh and Belyozovka rivers meet, so after the formation of the reservoir, the width of this body of water became extraordinarily wide, and in terms of the entire Bukhtamar reservoir, this body of water is second only to the area of Zaisangbo.The length of this body of water is also more than 30 kilometers, and after passing through this water, you will enter the relatively narrow reservoir water again, and the mountains on both sides will become more and more.More than an hour later, when the Siberian Endeavour sailed through this wide body of water and was about to enter the relatively narrow water, Yang Jing inadvertently glanced at it with the Tianyan skill, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.When entering the narrow water from this wide water, there is a mountain with an altitude of more than 800 meters on each side of the reservoir, which guards the place like two gate gods.The reservoir suddenly narrowed from seven or eight kilometers wide to only one and a half kilometers wide from the two mountains, as if it were a choke point.In fact, this is the remnant vein of the Altai Mountains, and the altitude of the peaks is generally more than 600 meters, and these two mountains are two or three hundred meters higher than the other peaks, so they are extremely eye-catching.And under the big mountain on the west bank, Yang Jing saw a faint red light from the bottom of the water.Yang Jing actually didn't realize that there were treasures here, at first he thought he was dazzled, but when he didn't believe in evil and used the Heavenly Eye Skill to take a closer look again, he confirmed that from the bottom of the mountain peak on the west bank, there was indeed a faint treasure light coming out!
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