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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{About||the physicist|Barak Kol (physicist)|the dioxaphenalene|Barakol}}<br />
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'''Barak Kol''' or '''Baraq Lake''' (also '''Baraqköl''', '''Barakol Lake''', '''Barakkol Lake''', '''Ozero Barakkol'''', '''Ozero Barak-Kul''''<ref>{{Cite book|author=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1959 |title=U.S.S.R. and certain neighboring areas; official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names |series=Gazetteer, no. 42 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Office of Geography |page=240}}</ref>) is a lake in [[Ulytau District]], [[Karaganda Region]], of central [[Kazakhstan]] between the mountains Gora Akdongul and Gora Baygetobe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ozero Barakkol', Qaraghandy, Kazakhstan |publisher=Traveling Luck |url=http://travelingluck.com/Asia/Kazakhstan/Qaraghandy/_1525764_Ozero+Barakkol'.html}}</ref> ''Köl'' is the word for lake in Turkic languages, and [[Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq|Baraq]] was a khan of the [[Chagatai Khanate]], a great-great-grandson of [[Genghis Khan]].<ref>{{Cite book|author=Biran, Michael |year=1997 |title=Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia |location=Surrey, England |publisher=Curzon Press |isbn=978-0-7007-0631-0}}</ref><br />
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Barak Kol is an important wetland for migrating geese, specifically ''Anser anser'', the [[greylag goose]], and ''Anser erythropus'', the [[lesser white-fronted goose]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bird areas: Ashchykol and Barakkol Lakes IBA |publisher=Global Species |url=http://globalspecies.org/birdareas/display/21889 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6fy5uNLme?url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobalspecies.org%2Fbirdareas%2Fdisplay%2F21889 |archivedate=13 March 2016 |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}</ref> The lake is approimately 3.5&nbsp;km wide and 4&nbsp;km long. The lake is freshwater with reeds gorwing along the margins. It lies in a shallow valley pinching out to the north and opening out to the south with low hills to the northeast and northwest.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Important Bird and Biodiversity Area factsheet: KZ061: Ashchykol and Barakkol Lakes |publisher=BirdLife International|url=http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sitefactsheet.php?id=21889 }}</ref><br />
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It is part of the proposed Ulytau-Arganatinsk nature reserve. The nearest settlement is Arganatinsk.<br />
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* {{Cite book|author1=Sklyarenko, Sergeĭ Lʹvovich |author2=Welch, G. R. |author3=Brombacher, Michael |lastauthoramp=yes |year=2008 |title=Important Bird Areas in Kazakhstan: Priority sites for conservation |location=Almaty |publisher=Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK) |isbn=978-9965-32-686-8}}<br />
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