The second-large river of Central Asia, Syr-Darya bears the waters from Fergana Valley to the Aral Sea. Since ancient times in a valley of Syr-Darya, among the extensive irrigational network created by hands of the person, there were the city settlements becoming nodal points on the Silk way. On Syr-Darya, on the border of Kazakhstan with Uzbekistan, the Shardarinsky reservoir settles down. It was created in the sixties the last century for accumulation of the water necessary for an irrigation of the huge agricultural region, and also for a hydroelectric power station construction on it. But, despite so pragmatic purposes, today this extensive reservoir represents a fine place for wild rest – to services of vacationers about 40 kilometers of sandy beaches, and also good chances of successful fishing.
