Places | July 08, 2014 06:22 PM EDT

35 interesting photos of Lake Issyk in Kazakhstan

The Issyk Lake is a lake in Kazakhstan fed by the Issyk River. It should not be confused with the Issyk-Kul Lake in the neighboring Kyrgyzstan. The lake is mostly famous for the way it was created (as a result of an ancient natural landslide damming a valley), destroyed (another natural landslide destroying that dam in 1963, with a subsequent flood damaging the city of Esik), and re-created (with human help).

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