Caspian Depression
The Caspian Depression is an approximately 600,000 km² large depression within the Aralo-Caspian Lowlands in southeastern Europe .
It includes not only the wet and swampy floodplains of the Urals and Volga north of the Caspian Sea , but also the entire basin of this lake , which is up to 1,023 m deep to 995 m deep, and its shoreline areas below sea level . The deepest - dry - part of the depression is located east of the Caspian Sea, where the terrain in the Karagije Depression is 132 m below the 0-meter contour line.
The highest point in the Caspian basin is Mount Bolshoye Bogdo on salt lake Baskunchak .
Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Iran , Russia and Turkmenistan have a share in the Caspian Depression .
Web links
Article Caspian Depression in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)