Bayanaul National Park is a national park

National park

A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or...

 of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

 located in southeastern Pavlodar Province. It was founded in 1985 and comprises an area of 68,453 ha. The park serves as a popular vacation destination for residents of Pavlodar

Pavlodar

Pavlodar is a city in northeastern Kazakhstan and the capital of Pavlodar Province. It is located 350 km northeast of the national capital Astana, and 400 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River. , the city has a population of 331710...

. The park has three freshwater lakes: Toraygir, Sabyndykol, and Jasybay

Lake Jasybay

Lake Jasybay is a lake in Kazakhstan. It is remarkably clean, as the Kazakh government has been committed to preserving the lake's watershed, limiting construction and even forbidding motorized vehicles on the water...

. The first one was named after a Kazakh

Kazakhs

The Kazakhs are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia ....

 poet, Sultanmahmut Toraygirov

Sultanmahmut Toraygirov

Sultanmahmut Toraygirov was a prominent Kazakh writer and poet. He was born in Qyzyl Tau but moved to Bayanaul in the province of Pavlodar at the age of four. Toraygirov wrote his first poems when only 13 years old. From 1913 on, he was the sub-editor for the first Kazakh journal Aikap. In 1914...

 who spent his childhood there.

In the summer of 1993, the first All-Republic Camp (National Jamboree

Jamboree (Scouting)

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) of the Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan

Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan

The coeducational Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan was officially founded in 1992, and received World Organization of the Scout Movement recognition on January 16, 2008...

, named "Jasybay's Arrow", was held at the national camp, Jasybay

Jasybay

Jasybay was a Kazakh mythic hero, a warrior who fought the Dzungarian invasion of the 16th and 17th centuries. Jasybay himself was slain but the local tribes were successful in repelling that round of invasions...

, named for a Kazakh

Kazakhs

The Kazakhs are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia ....

mythic hero, near Bayanaul National Park.