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| name = Dead Kultuk
| other_name =(Blue Sea - ''Mer Bleue'')
| native_name = Мёртвый Култук
| native_name_lang = Russian
| settlement_type = [[Bay]]
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| subdivision_type = Sea
| subdivision_name = [[Caspian Sea]]
| subdivision_type1 = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Kazakhstan]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Regions of Kazakhstan|Region]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Mangystau Region]]
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The '''Dead Kultuk''' ({{lang-ru|Мёртвый Култук}}) is a [[bay]] of the [[Caspian Sea]] in the coast of [[Kazakhstan]]. The bay was known as '[[Tsesarevich]] Bay' and then as '[[Komsomol]]ets Bay' in the past.<ref name=CS/> [[Durneva Island]] lies near the entrance to the Dead Kultuk.<ref>[http://land.worldcitydb.com/ostrova_durneva_3225273.html Ostrov Durneva]</ref>

It had a distinct coastline in former times, but since the 1990s, with higher Caspian Sea levels, the water penetrates inland through the neck of the bay producing waterlogged marshes. Located at the mainland end of the bay, the [[Kaydak Inlet]] cuts deep into the coast extending east and then southwards. Nowadays both the bay and the inlet are filled with Caspian Sea water.<ref name=CS>Igor S. Zonn, Aleksey N Kosarev, Michael H. Glantz & Andrey G. Kostianoy, ''The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia'', p. 156</ref> Currently there are [[oil field]]s in the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kmg2.isd.kz/page.php?page_id=1241&lang=2|title=Dunga and Dead Kultuk fields |date=2012|publisher=kmg2.isd.kz|accessdate=2013-05-19}}</ref>
==Cartography==
Owing to its special colour the Dead Kultuk is likely the bay which appears in early maps of the Caspian Sea as 'Blue Sea' ({{lang-fr|Mer Bleue}} in maps in that language).<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lisle,_Guillaume_de.1742._Carte_des_Pays_voisins_de_la_Mer_Caspiene,_dressee_pour_l%27usage_du_Roy_(R).jpg Guillaume de Lisle, ''Carte des Pays voisins de la Mer Caspiene'']</ref> The area was cartographed by [[Fedor Ivanovich Soimonov]] during the [[1719 Caspian Expedition|Caspian Expedition]], which surveyed the Caspian Sea from 1719 to 1727, but was only accurately described by [[Grigory Karelin|G. S. Karelin]] in 1832.<ref name=CS/>

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|[[File:John Senex. Kaspiska havet. 1742.jpg|thumb|290px|1742 map of the Caspian Sea with the Dead Kultuk as 'Blue Sea'.]]
|[[File:Bowen, Emanuel; Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba. A new and accurate map of the Caspian Sea. 1747.jpg|thumb|220px|1747 map with the Dead Kultuk as 'Blue Sea'.]]
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==See also==
*[[Buzachi Peninsula]]
*[[Dunga oil field]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.zin.ru/projects/caspdiv/biodiversity_report.html Caspian Sea Biodiversity]
*[https://www.eia.gov/beta/international/regions-topics.cfm?RegionTopicID=CSR ''Overview of oil and natural gas in the Caspian Sea region'' Last Updated: August 26, 2013]
*[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earth-as-art3/exhibition-items.html Earth As Art 3: A Landsat Perspective]
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[[Category:Bodies of water of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Bays of the Caspian Sea]]
[[Category:Bays of Europe]]
[[Category:Bays of Asia]]

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