Zhalgyz-Terek

Zhalgyz-Terek ("lone poplar") is a hamlet in the Moiynkum sands, in the Northern Steppe planning zone of the Autonomous Tribal Regions (ATR). Its population is about 340 (2021 estimate).^[1] It began as a single herder's homestead beside a spring shaded by a large poplar, which travelers on the track across the sands used as a resting place, and grew into a village when a Soviet sheep farm built a winter camp there in the 1950s. The old poplar died in 1997; a younger tree planted beside the spring now gives the hamlet its shade.^[2]

References

1. ^ United Nations Mission in Irad (2021). Settlements and Services in the Northern Steppe Zone. Kara-Oi.
2. ^ Talas State University Press (2014). Wells and Winter Pastures of the Moiynkum and the Southern Betpak-Dala. Talas.