Ge eo oJ Jo ou ur rn na al l o of f T To ou ur ri is sm m a an nd d G Ge eo os si it te es s Year X XI II I, vol. 28, no.

The paper analyzes the tourist and recreational potential of the Sharyn River basin, which can serve the basis for further development of health tourism centers. The research is based on field studies of landscapes conducted in summer 2019 in the Sharyn River basin. Four key sections were laid along the Sarytugay, Moyyntukay, Temirlik, and Shonzhy routes. A digital thematic map was created in ArcGIS 10.1. The landscapes of the Sharyn River basin have a significant natural potential for developing a combined type of tourism, which includes the medical and recreational aspects of providing tourism services. Transport accessibility, a long warm season, the prevalence of clear weather in summer, attractive landscapes and water bodies, and significant biodiversity make this territory a very promising place for organizing ecological, educational, and recreational tourism. The authors note that the Sharyn State National Natural Park and the UNESCO Sharyn Biosphere Reserve are located in the studied region, and this fact guarantees preserving natural recreational resources and developing tourist routes. The sparsely populated area allows to observe animals and plants in their natural habitat. The complex of the piedmont plain Ketmen allows providing a wide range of sanatorium services, including thermal waters for heating buildings and organizing greenhouses. To prevent negative consequences of unorganized tourism and justify further investments in recreational resources development, the authors provided recommendations that would ensure the sustainable development of medical tourism. This fact creates prerequisites for forming a new health and tourist cluster of international importance in Kazakhstan.

The paper deals with the influence of the hydrological regime of the Charyn River, where the Bestyubinsk reservoir was built in 2012, on the state of floodplain geosystems. The research aims to identify and analyze the impact of regulation of the Charyn River flow reservoir on the state of geosystems. Research tasks include (1) calculating and analyzing the hydrological regime of the Charyn River; (2) identifying the sections of the river floodplain most susceptible to the threat of flooding before and after the construction of the reservoir; (3) compiling comprehensive physical and geographical characteristics of the floodplain geosystems of the Taskarasu Valley subject to frequent flooding. In the analysis of the hydrological regime of the river, we used difference and total integral curves to identify the cycles of fluctuations in the annual runoff. The river runoff was estimated by the change in the parameter of the mean annual runoff for 2004–2018. As a result of the interpretation of satellite images, using the Automated Water Extraction Index integrated with ArcGIS, the most frequently flooded area of the river floodplain for this period was identified. The time and area of flooding were determined. Based on the data obtained, the flooded areas were compared for 2004–2018. The advantages of visual observation using satellite images are the ability to clearly and intelligibly visualize the flooded area and systematically, as quickly as possible, reach the required site coordinates using decoded digital data, which is necessary when studying the functioning of geosystems. To describe the state of the floodplain geosystems most susceptible to flooding, we used the data for many years of field landscape studies. Thus, comprehensive physical and geographical characteristics of the Taskarasu Valley were given.

The study of the biomass productivity of vegetation in the Sharyn River basin, carried out on the basis of remote sensing data, on the European digital platform for global monitoring of the Earth CGLS, the DMP module using satellite images from Sentinel-2 sensors, in combination with meteorological data from MeteoConsult (EU) for the time period 2014…2019 Spatial and temporal consistency was checked by comparing these data with climatic parameters during the vegetation part of the annual cycle. The data of Kazhydromet were studied and diagrams of the average annual precipitation and average air temperature by months for the studied period of time were built.