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[[File:Lakebalkhashbasinmap.png|thumb|Map of the [[Lake Balkhash]] [[drainage basin]] (Ayaugz is spelled Ayakoz with two dots over the O)]]

'''Ayaguz River''', also spelled '''Ayoguz''', is a river in [[Kazakhstan]]. The city of [[Ayagoz]] in Eastern Kazakhstan is located on its bank. There no longer much if any flow from the river into [[Lake Balkash]].

==History==
In 1717, [[Kaip Khan]] and [[Abul Khayr]] attacked the [[Dzungar Khanate|Dzungar]] [[khanate]] but were defeated on the River Ayaguz. <ref>History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Development in contrast : from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century,Ahmad Hasan Dani, Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson, Unesco UNESCO, Jan 1, 2003 page 97 (cited toKazaksko-russkie otnosheniya v XVI-XVIII vv 1961 pp 22-24)</ref>

Various Russian explorations took place in the area in the first half of the 19th century. Federoff explored the area in 1834.<ref name=from/> Between 1837 and 1843 the trans-Irtysh steppe as far as the Ayaguz River and Chu River was mapped on a scale of five [[verst]]s to the inch. The shores of Lake Balkash were also surveyed and explored. Prince Gortchakoff, governor of [[West Siberian economic region|Western Siberia]], sent an officer named Assanoff in 1839 with some men to Lake Balkash to see if a fishing station could be established.<ref name=from/> He left Ayaguz and descended the Ayaguz River taking soundings, and fishing. He found two types of fish: marena and sudak (not in large numbers) in the brackish water.<ref name=from/> The Kuzu Kerbetch tomb was found nearby and was said to be significant to the Kyrgyz population.<ref name=from/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3_FKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=Kuzu-Kerpetch&source=bl&ots=0EWGipQMPr&sig=8XCiMO6Z0ozny9fvx31n5UqD55k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GA1UU8SbA8G-sQTrqYLoDQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Kuzu-Kerpetch&f=false A Journey Through Semiretchia to Kuldja in 1880] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, Edward Stanford, 1881 Volume 3 page 155</ref> Kuzu-Kerpetch was a Krygyz chief known from folk songs for valor and his love for Baian Sulu (who eventually caused his death)<ref name=from>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8u8aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA175&dq=ayaguz+river&hl=en&sa=X&ei=J_5TU6_WI6jIsATK2oKYDw&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=ayaguz%20river&f=false From Kulja, Across the Tian Shan to Lobnor] by N. Prejevalsky</ref>

The rivers reedy lower section were once tiger habitat.<ref>Mammals of the Soviet Union, Volume 2 Part 2 Carnivora edited by V. G. Heptner page 119, 181</ref> The river turned up an [[Ordovician]] [[trilobite]] fossil, an [[Agerina acutilimbata]] (see [[list of trilobite genera]], found by Ghobadi Pour et al. in 2011 in [[Katian]], [[Karagech Formation]] on the east side of the Ayaguz River {{convert|7|km|mi|0}} north of [[Akchi|Akchii]] village in the [[Tarbagatai Range]].<ref>Ordovician of the World
edited by Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco, Isabel Rábano, Diego García-Bellido pages 174, 175</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.panoramio.com/photo/13646658 Panaramio image of east lake and river]

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[[Category:Rivers of Kazakhstan]]

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