In the article “Compensator pond as a stabilizer of the work of the Zhaiyk River (Ural) during the period of high water and floods” Kasymov Sh.R. provides information from the media published on the Internet about problems arising on the Zhaiyk River (Ural) during high waters and floods. He notes that they are recorded annually, especially when the river flow approaches its annual average. At the end of the article, as one of the options for improving this situation, he talks about the need to use special ponds (compensators and compensator-settlements), determines their rational number (4) and approximate locations on the Zhaiyk River (area of the cities of Oral (Uralsk) and Orsk), as well as above the reservoir.