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| name = Kaydak Inlet
| other_name = Sor Kaydak
| native_name = Залив Кайдак
| native_name_lang = Russian
| settlement_type = [[Inlet]]
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| subdivision_type = Sea
| subdivision_name = [[Caspian Sea]]
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Kazakhstan]]
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The '''Kaydak Inlet''' or '''Sor Kaydak''' ({{lang-ru|Залив Кайдак}}) is a narrow [[inlet]] or arm at the eastern end of the [[Dead Kultuk]] (former Komsomolets), a [[bay]] of the [[Caspian Sea]] in the coast of [[Kazakhstan]]. Located at the mainland end of the bay, it forms the eastern limit of the [[Buzachi Peninsula]], at the north of the [[Mangyshlak Peninsula]].<ref>[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=78232 NASA Visible Earth: Sor Kaydak, Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan]</ref> The inlet is shallow and cuts deep into the coast extending east and then roughly southwards in a SSW direction. Like all shallow gulfs of the eastern shores of the Caspian, it has a high salinity.<ref>Jacques C.J. Nihoul, Peter O. Zavialov, Philip P. Micklin eds. ''Dying and Dead Seas Climatic Versus Anthropic Causes,'' p. 189</ref>

In the same manner as the Dead Kultuk, the Kaydak Inlet 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. 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> The water in the shallow inlet has striking colours, in which delicate tones of blue or of brown predominate according to the seasons.<ref>[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earth-as-art3/exhibition-items.html Earth As Art 3: A Landsat Perspective]</ref>
==Cartography==
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 later by [[Grigory Karelin|G. S. Karelin]] in 1832.<ref name=CS/>

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|[[File:Обзорная карта Мангыстау.png|thumb|270px|Map of the Mangyshlak Peninsula area showing the Kaydak Inlet.]]
|[[File:North-East part of Caspian Sea (IMW NL39).jpg|thumb|260px|Map of the northeastern part of Caspian Sea with the Kaydak Inlet in the lower right.]]
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==See also==
*[[Dead Kultuk]]

==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]
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[[Category:Bodies of water of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Bays of the Caspian Sea]]
[[Category:Inlets of Europe]]

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