Kashkanteniz crossing

The Kashkanteniz crossing (Iradi: Kashkanteniz chek ara ötkölü) is a crossing on Irad's frontier with Kazakhstan at the northern edge of the Northern Steppe planning zone of the Autonomous Tribal Regions (ATR), about 21 kilometers north-north-east of the hamlet of Kashkanteniz, at about 45°57′N 73°32′E. It is the northern end of the roughly 200-kilometer stretch of the Kazakh highway from Almaty to Lake Balkhash that runs across tribal steppe from the Aksüyek crossing; the Kazakh town of Priozersk lies about 14 kilometers beyond it.^[1] A post of the El-Choro Militias collects the customary transit levy, and a Kazakh border post stands on the far side.^[2]

References

1. ^ Central Asian Geopolitical Review (2022). 'Suspended Sovereignty: Irad's Frozen Conflict at Fifteen.' Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 201–224.
2. ^ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2023). Transhumant Pastoralism and Rangeland Management in Central Asia. Rome, pp. 88–102.