Lake Tengiz
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Tengiz Lake is a saline lake in north-central part of Kazakhstan
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Lake Tengiz is an important wetland site for birds. It ia a part of a Ramsar wetland site of international importance, "Tengiz-Korgalzhyn Lake System". 318 species of birds have been recorded at Lake Tengiz, 22 of which are endangered. The lake is part of the Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve, which is was nominated in 2008 together with the Naurzum Nature Reserve as the first natural UNESCO World Heritage site
in Kazakhstan (Saryarka — Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan).
On October 16, 1976, Soyuz 23
unintentionally splashed down into the northern part of the lake.
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...
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Lake Tengiz is an important wetland site for birds. It ia a part of a Ramsar wetland site of international importance, "Tengiz-Korgalzhyn Lake System". 318 species of birds have been recorded at Lake Tengiz, 22 of which are endangered. The lake is part of the Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve, which is was nominated in 2008 together with the Naurzum Nature Reserve as the first natural UNESCO World Heritage site
World Heritage Site
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or physical significance...
in Kazakhstan (Saryarka — Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan).
On October 16, 1976, Soyuz 23
Soyuz 23
Soyuz 23 was a 1976 Soviet manned space flight, the second to the Salyut 5 space station. Cosmonauts Vyacheslav Zudov and Valery Rozhdestvensky arrived at the station, but an equipment malfunction did not allow docking and the mission had to be aborted....
unintentionally splashed down into the northern part of the lake.