Ulken Tobylzhan

Ulken Tobylzhan (Үлкен Тобылжан; Большой Таволжан, Bolshoy Tavolzhan) is a salt lake in Uspen District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.

The lake lies 48 km to the northeast of Pavlodar town and 15 km south of Uspenka, the district capital. There is commercial extraction of salt from Ulken Tobylzhan and Maly Tobylzhan, the two largest lakes of the group. Part of the salt is exported to the Western Siberia region.

Geography
Lake Ulken Tobylzhan is an elongated lake, part of a circular lake cluster located in the Kulunda Steppe, southern end of the West Siberian Plain. It lies 45 km west of the Kazakhstan–Russia border. The group of lakes is flat and has a diameter of roughly 18 km. It is surrounded by cultivated fields.

Located in the southern half, Ulken Tobylzhan is the largest of the lakes in the cluster. Tobylzhan village lies near the southern lakeshore. The A17 Highway skirts the lake from the south and turns northeast and north, crossing the lake zone. Ulken Tobylzhan is followed by only slightly smaller Kishi Tobylzhan (Maly Tavolzhan) located 2.3 km to the north of its NW end. There are a number of smaller lakes, as well as salt marshes in the Tobylzhan cluster.

Lake Maraldy lies 40 km to the south, Ulken Azhbolat 45 km to the north, and Bolshoye Yarovoye 70 km to the ENE of the lake cluster.