Butakovsky gorge
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Butakovsky gorge is located on the Northern slope of the Zailiysky Alatau ridge in the watershed of The Little (Malaya) Almatinka[citation needed] basin and the Left Talgar, Kazakhstan.
The local terrain was formed during the formation of the Tien Shan about 20 million years ago. In the 19th century, it was the dacha of the first Governor of Semirechye G. A. Kolpakovsky. There is an assumption that the gorge was named after the chief of the Cossack guard posted in this gorge in the 1860s to protect the forest from logging by migrants from Siberia. The Kazakh origin of the place name is not excluded: butak (i.e. a tributary). Indeed, the Butakovka river is a right tributary of the little (Malaya) Almatinka. From here you can walk to the Kimasar range and return to Медеу, as well as to the valley of the Left Talgar river.