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Kaskelen (Rus. Kaskelen) - the river in the ili basin

Etymology
There are different opinions about the history of the origin of this name. One of them-the legend: "in the old days on the site, named in modern Kaskelen, there were two poets-poet of one Bai. Far near Les honor GBA Almaty of the guys. To do this, the two poets were called bride, "as Kelin", and the name of the land was reduced and shortened as" OS akyn kiln aul". This name Russian people adapted to the language and called "Kaskelen". The Kazakhs, too, followed this and called "Kaskelen". According to another opinion about the history of the origin of this name, the historical name "Kaskelen". This Shaprashty Kazybek Bek Tauasarova writes as follows: "in our country, in the mountains Cascolan, one village remains from the former war hero kalmaku. At this time they communicated with Kazakhs. Only of these, when he was a Karen man, did he bring in the intruder, and at least he could wait for the Kalmyks from the place of passage of the deposits. Here was born the father cascolan Tagil. Since the attacker was born on the banks of the river Kaskelen. Cascolan called Cascolan, as the river Kaskelen descends directly from the mountains and is clearly visible caskey. It is called at Kazakhs as-that the enemy, kaskasu. In this context, Galym Koishybayev conducts research and considers two options: the first is the name was formed from the merger of the Turkic words "helmet" - "takyr" and "Helen" - "Shirak", the second is the name "Kaskelen" from the words of the ancient Turkic language "helmet" and "Yelen" and has the meaning of "stream water".

Geographical location
Almaty region flows through the land of Karasai and ili districts.

Beginning
Zailiyskiy Alatau - begins with two powerful glaciers at an altitude of 3580 m and flows into the Kapchagay reservoir.

Hydrology
Length -177 km. Catchment area-3620 km2. The slope of the river is 30 m, and the depth -1,5 m. The river is in danger of flooding. Industry: Imagen, Kasymbek, Copsey, Shamalgan, Aksai, Kokozek, Almaty Big, Small Almaty. [1]