Petrov Glacier

a glacier in the Tien-Shan, in the Kirghiz SSR, in the mountains of Akshiirak. Source of the Kumtor River, the headstream of the Naryn. Covering an area of 73.9 sq km, it is 14.3 km long and 1.8 km wide in the lower part. The glacier is named after the topographer in A. V. Kaul’bars’ expedition of 1869.

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Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic

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In 2015, according to Bakirov, Kumtor consumed 5.542 billion m3 of water from the Petrov glacier.

Lawmaker asks whether Kumtor mine pays for water use

Two more agreements were signed on joint research projects at Lake Issyk-Kul, Petrov Glacier, mineral resources of the western Tien Shan in December 2013.

Chinese Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth hands over software to Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences allowing to receive and process satellite data

Sergey Erokhin named the following factors that may cause outburst of the lake: intensive growth of the lake in size, intensive melting of the Petrov glacier which falls into the lake, weakened sustainability of the glacial moraine dam of the lake.The USSR Lake Studies Institute studied the lake since 1978.

No danger of Petrov Lake outburst near tailing storage facility of Kumtor Operating Company at present, says geology expert