№ 5 (49), 2011 - KazEnergy

Here, in Mangyshlak, three powerful universalflows are joined. Three of the seas: Firstis the Caspian Sea, a huge pond with theobscure geographical status and the vaguegeological past.Second is the desert peninsula and adjacentUstyurt, which on closer inspection turnsout to be the sea, too, but punished for something,and sworn in some unthinkable distanttimes, dried, enchanted and petrified,turned inside out. No wonder then, in anyplace, at any height, in any depth one canfind shells, fish or mark or tooth-stone ofsome primitive sharks.And one more sea is a man-made one, which(like the invisible Sarasvati) is glistening inthe dark depths of the human history, butoccasionally bringing to the the surface mysteriouswreckage and exciting signs of of thepast. Someone has once given a faithful andreliable guard to this hidden sea. The de-KAZENERGY105