{{short description|Mountain in Kazakhstan}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Akbet | other_name = Ақбет | image = Жачыбай с высоты Акбет.jpg | image_caption = View from the summit towards the west | elevation_m = 1022 | elevation_ref =<ref name="SMT"/> | prominence_m = | prominence_ref = | range = Bayanaul Range;<br />Kazakh Uplands | listing = | country=Kazakhstan | region = Pavlodar Region | district = Bayanaul District | map = Kazakhstan | map_caption = Location in Kazakhstan | map_size = | coordinates = {{coord|50|50|36|N|75|39|46|E|type:mountain_region:KZ_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref =<ref name="SMT">{{cite web|url=https://maps.vlasenko.net/smtm1000/m-43.jpg|title=M-43 Chart (in Russian)|access-date=6 January 2023}}</ref><ref name="GЕ">Google Earth</ref> | topo_map = | type = | age = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = from Bayanaul }}
'''Akbet''' ({{langx|kk|Ақбет}}) is a mountain in Bayanaul District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.
Akbet is located about {{convert|8|km|mi|0}} to the NNW of Bayanaul.<ref name="GЕ"/> According to local folklore, the mountain is named after a Kazakh girl who killed herself there after having been given in marriage to a man she did not love.<ref>[https://hotel-all.ru/en/moscow/legendy-bayanaula-bayanaul-nacionalnyi-park-kazahstana-nacionalnyi/ Bayanaul legends. Bayanaul]</ref>
== Geography == Akbet rises in the Bayanaul Range, a subrange of the Kazakh Uplands (Saryarka). The mountain has generally gentle slopes, but rocky and strongly dissected on the western side, where there is a gorge with springs. With an elevation {{convert|1022|m|ft|0}}, it is the highest mountain in the Bayanaul Range, as well as the highest point of Pavlodar Region.<ref name="KЕ">''Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia'' / Ch. ed. B.O. Jakyp. — Almaty: «Kazakh encyclopedia» ZhSS, 2011. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T.Z.), ISBN 9965-893-19-5</ref><ref name="SMT"/><ref name="GЕ"/>
Geologically the peak is made up of Silurian and Devonian granite, syenite, porphyry and shale.<ref name="KЕ"/>
==See also== *Geography of Kazakhstan
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==External links== * [https://silkadv.com/en/content/mountain-akbet-bayanaul Mountain Akbet in Bayanaul]
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Category:Kazakh Uplands Category:Mountains of Kazakhstan