Beskol
Beskol is a village in Jetisu Region of south-eastern Kazakhstan. Beskol, which means Five Lakes in Kazakh, has a roughly 50% Russian, 50% Kazakh mix. The primary employer is the railway station, which is important both as a passenger and freight stop – trains travel through here to both Almaty and Astana, and west to Urumqi in China.- Type: Village with 3,030 residents
- Description: village in Almaty Region, Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Besköl”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bulaqty.
Bulaqty
Town
Bulaqty, previously Obukhovka, is a village in Jetisu Region, in south-eastern Kazakhstan.
Beskol
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Zhetysu Region, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
46.17361° or 46° 10′ 25″ northLongitude
81.09902° or 81° 5′ 57″ eastPopulation
3,030Elevation
393 metres (1,289 feet)Open location code
8MR353FX+CJOpenStreetMap ID
way 626214126OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1525403Wikidata ID
Q3947005
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Uzbek—“Beskol” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Бясколь”
- Cebuano: “Besköl”
- Chechen: “Бесколь (Алматан область)”
- Chechen: “Бесколь”
- Dutch: “Beskol”
- Irish: “Beskol”
- Kazakh: “Besköl awılı”
- Kazakh: “Бескөл ауылы”
- Kazakh: “Бескөл”
- Kazakh: “بەسكول اۋىلى”
- Macedonian: “Бескол”
- Malay: “Beskol”
- Persian: “بسکول”
- Russian: “Beskol’”
- Russian: “Бесколь”
- Swedish: “Besköl”
- Tajik: “Бескӯл (н. Алокӯл)”
- Tajik: “Бескӯл”
- Tatar: “Бескүл (Алматы өлкәсе)”
- Tatar: “Бескүл”
- Ukrainian: “Бесколь”
- Uzbek: “Beskoʻl (Almati viloyati)”
- Uzbek: “Beskoʻl”
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