# Akbet

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{{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](/source/Bayanaul_Range);<br />[Kazakh Uplands](/source/Kazakh_Uplands)
| listing = 
| country=Kazakhstan 
| region = [Pavlodar Region](/source/Pavlodar_Region) 
| district = [Bayanaul District](/source/Bayanaul_District)
| map = Kazakhstan
| map_caption = Location in Kazakhstan
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| 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](/source/Google_Earth)</ref>
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| first_ascent = 
| easiest_route = from [Bayanaul](/source/Bayanaul)
}}

'''Akbet''' ({{langx|kk|Ақбет}}) is a mountain in [Bayanaul District](/source/Bayanaul_District), [Pavlodar Region](/source/Pavlodar_Region), [Kazakhstan](/source/Kazakhstan).

Akbet is located about {{convert|8|km|mi|0}} to the NNW of [Bayanaul](/source/Bayanaul).<ref name="GЕ"/> According to local folklore, the mountain is named after a [Kazakh girl](/source/Kazakhs) 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](/source/Bayanaul_Range), a subrange of the [Kazakh Uplands](/source/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](/source/Bayanaul_Range), as well as the highest point of [Pavlodar Region](/source/Pavlodar_Region).<ref name="KЕ">''Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia'' / Ch. ed. B.O. Jakyp. — [Almaty](/source/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](/source/Silurian) and [Devonian](/source/Devonian) [granite](/source/granite), [syenite](/source/syenite), [porphyry](/source/Porphyry_(geology)) and [shale](/source/shale).<ref name="KЕ"/>

==See also==
*[Geography of Kazakhstan](/source/Geography_of_Kazakhstan)

==References==
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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

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