«Aktolagay» cretaceous mountain

Aktolagai (kaz. Ақтолағай) is a 90 km long mountain range located on the territory of the Bayganin district, Aktobe region.
This is a geological and geomorphological object of nature reserve fund of national and international significance. The peculiarity of the landscape of these place is the extremely thin cover of the chalk mountains. In places, nature has created whole labyrinths of sheer walls, columns, niches, ledges, terraces, landslide amphitheaters of isolated outliers.
Aktolagai is the former bottom of the world ocean. The arguments are shark teeth found, whale spines, fossilized turtle, mollusks, ocean urchins shells found at every step.
The plateau is 90 km long and 5-10 km wide. The highest point Nartobe is 302 meters. It closes with the Caspian lowland along the bank of the Zhem River. It is composed of Cretaceous rocks. The western slope is steep, divided by logs and ravines. The Terisakkan River originates from Aktolagai. To the west is the Tolagai-sor Lake. Wormwood, biyurgun, tasbyurgun, gray wormwood, boyalych grow on gray soils and salt marshes.
Locals call Aktolagai an open-air museum, some call this place Alatau. Here you can see many sculptures, such as the lion, Titanic, chess princess, camel, turtle, pyramid, sphinx, chess rook, yurt, pyramids, etc.
According to Aksakals, Kurmangazy's "Alatau" kui is dedicated to this valley.
Another amazing feature of the Aktolagai tract is that during the day, due to the sun, the plateau changes its color 3 times. Yellowish early in the morning, white in the afternoon, and bluish in the evening.
The valley has a famous peak in the form of a skullcap, which is called the top of Kulshara. At one time, the hero of the Adai clan named Kulshar dug a cave above the top and defended himself from the enemy. A single road leads to the top of the mountain, where batyr is burried. The maximum height of the mountain that can be climbed from the Ground is 251 meters.