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Yudoma
The Yudoma (russian: Юдома) is a river in eastern Siberia in the Yudoma-Maya Highlands near the Okhotsk Coast. It joins the Maya which joins the Aldan which joins the Lena which flows into the Arctic Ocean. Its northern headwaters are in the Suntar-Khayata Range. To the east is the Yudoma Range and then the Okhota, to the south the Maya and to the northwest, the Allakh-Yun, another tributary of the Aldan. Geography Its length in and its basin is (about the size of Switzerland). Its source is above sea level and its mouth, . It is fed by snowmelt and summer rains. It is frozen from mid-October to late May. At its mouth the minimum water flow is in March, and the maximum is in June. At its mouth it is wide and deep. The lower are considered navigable. The Yudoma limits the southern end of the Ulakhan-Bom range.Google Earth Infrastructure and local economy The area is largely unsettled and there is hardly any infrastructure. The only significant settlement is Yugor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okhotsk Coast
The Okhotsk Coast is an informal name for the northwest coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. Although it was never an administrative unit there is some reason to treat it as a distinct region. Here in 1639 the Russians first reached the Pacific Ocean. From here, beginning in 1716, Russian ships sailed east to the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Landmarks ''The western section'' is historically the most important. It runs northeast about from Uda Gulf to the town of Okhotsk. At the westernmost point of the Sea of Okhotsk is the Uda River which was the Russo-Chinese border from the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) to the Treaty of Aigun (1859). To the east is Uda Gulf and the Shantar Islands. About up the coast is Ayan with its good harbor but poor communications inland. northeast is the mouth of the Ulya River where the Russians first saw the Pacific. northeast is the mouth of the southeast-flowing Urak River (an important route to the coast) and further is the tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yudoma-Maya Highlands
The Yudoma-Maya Highlands ( rus, Юдомо-Майское нагорье, r=Yudomo-Maiskoye Nagorye; sah, Юдома-Маайа хаптал хайалаах сиринэн ) are a mountainous area in the Sakha Republic and Khabarovsk Krai, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The settlement of Allakh-Yun is located in the area of the highlands on the right bank of the Allakh-Yun River. History The area of the Yudoma-Maya and the Aldan highlands, between the basins of the Aldan River and the Yudoma, was uncharted territory well until the 1930s. It was first surveyed in 1934 by geologist Yuri Bilibin (1901—1952) together with mining engineer Evgeny Bobin (1897—1941) in the course of an expedition sent by the government of the USSR. Bilibin and Bobin made a thorough topographic survey of the mountainous regions leading separate research parties. They described the highlands as "a disordered jumble of round hills with soft outlines". Geography The Yudoma-Maya Highlands ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya (river)
The Maya (russian: Мая) is a river in Khabarovsk Krai and Sakha, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Aldan of the Lena basin. The length of the river is . The area of its basin . The Maya freezes up in late October and stays under the ice until May. The Yudoma is one of the biggest tributaries of the Maya. The river is navigable up to upstream from its mouth. The Yudoma-Maya Highlands are located in the basin of the Maya.Юдомо-Майское нагорье / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vol.] / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M .: , 2004—2017. The Maya was part of the river route from Yakutsk to the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okhota River
The Okhota (russian: Охота, from an Even word ''окат'' (okat) meaning "river") is a river in Khabarovsk Krai which flows south to the Sea of Okhotsk near the port town of Okhotsk.Охота (река в Хабаровском крае) (''tr. "Okhota (river in the Khabarovsk Territory): Definition of "(literally) Hunting (river in the Khabarovsk Territory)" in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia"'') , accessed 4 November 2022 The Okhota is long, and its covers . (''tr. "River Okh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suntar-Khayata
Suntar-Khayata Range (russian: Сунтар-Хаята, sah, Сунтаар Хайата) is a granite mountain range rising along the border of the Sakha Republic in the north with Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai in the south. The R504 Kolyma Highway passes through the northern part of the range by Kyubeme. Geography The Suntar-Khayata is approximately 450–550 km long and 60 km wide. high Mus-Khaya Mountain, located in the Sakha Republic, is the highest point of the range. Berill Mountain, at is the highest summit in Khabarovsk Krai. Mount Khakandya (Гора Хакандя) is an ultra-prominent peak that is high. The Suntar-Khayata Range is geographically a southeastern prolongation of the Verkhoyansk Range. Until mid 20th century it was treated as a separate range, together with the Skalisty Range, highest point , and the Sette Daban, highest point , to the southwest. The Yudoma-Maya Highlands are located to the south of the range [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suntar-Khayata Range
Suntar-Khayata Range (russian: Сунтар-Хаята, sah, Сунтаар Хайата) is a granite mountain range rising along the border of the Sakha Republic in the north with Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai in the south. The R504 Kolyma Highway passes through the northern part of the range by Kyubeme. Geography The Suntar-Khayata is approximately 450–550 km long and 60 km wide. high Mus-Khaya Mountain, located in the Sakha Republic, is the highest point of the range. Berill Mountain, at is the highest summit in Khabarovsk Krai. Mount Khakandya (Гора Хакандя) is an ultra-prominent peak that is high. The Suntar-Khayata Range is geographically a southeastern prolongation of the Verkhoyansk Range. Until mid 20th century it was treated as a separate range, together with the Skalisty Range, highest point , and the Sette Daban, highest point , to the southwest. The Yudoma-Maya Highlands are located to the south of the range [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoryonok
Yugoryonok (russian: Югорёнок) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Ust-Maysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Ust-Maya, the administrative center of the district,''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'' in a highly isolated region on the right bank of the Yudoma River. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 272. History It was founded in 1940 at a river port on the Yudoma, for use as a service base for the nearby goldfields. It was initially administered from Yur, located about away. With the cessation of gold mining in the 1970s, Yur was abandoned, and Yugoryonok was granted urban-type settlement status in 1978. With the cessation of mining activities in the 1990s, its population has decreased dramatically. Geography Climate Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement of YugoryonokAccording to Article 7 of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allakh-Yun (river)
The Allakh-Yun (russian: Аллах-Юнь, sah, Ааллаах Үүн, ''Aallaax Üün'') is a river in Sakha Republic and Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Aldan. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Geography The Allakh-Yun arises at an elevation of around as the outflow from the mountain lake Amparyndzha, in the south-eastern Verkhoyansk Range. It flows generally in a south-westerly direction through a narrow valley along the Yudoma-Maya Highlands, to the east of the Sette-Daban range. The river cuts through the Ulakhan-Bom Ridge, before flowing into the Aldan by the southern end of the Kyllakh Range, at an elevation of , approximately from the settlement of Eldikan. Google Earth At its mouth, the Allakh-Yun is about wide and deep. The Allakh-Yun freezes over from mid-October until late May. Local economy and infrastructure The river is navigable on its lower and middle sections. The surrounding area is very sparsely settled, with the fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khabarovsk Krai
Khabarovsk Krai ( rus, Хабаровский край, r=Khabarovsky kray, p=xɐˈbarəfskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Russian Far East and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District. The administrative centre of the krai is the city of Khabarovsk, which is home to roughly half of the krai's population and the largest city in the Russian Far East (just ahead of Vladivostok). Khabarovsk Krai is the fourth-largest federal subject by area, and has a population of 1,343,869 as of 2010. The southern region lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River, with the mouth of the river located at Nikolaevsk-on-Amur draining into the Strait of Tartary, which separates Khabarovsk Krai from the island of Sakhalin. The north occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. Khabarovsk Krai is bordered by Magadan Oblast to the north, Amur Oblast, Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulakhan-Bom
The Ulakhan-Bom (russian: Улахан-Бом; sah, Улахан Бом, meaning "Big Obstacle") is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia, a southern prolongation of the Verkhoyansk Range, part of the East Siberian System. Administratively the mountain chain belongs to the Sakha Republic. The urban locality of Solnechny is located near the slopes of the range, by the Allakh-Yun River. Geography The Ulakhan-Bom stretches roughly from north to south for about to the west of the Sette-Daban, forming a group of three parallel ranges, together with the Skalisty Range further to the east. It is bound in the north by the Tompo River, which separates it from the Verkhoyansk Range proper. To the west it is bound by the wide Aldan River valley and to the south by the Yudoma River. The Tyry river cuts across the northern section of the Ulakhan-Bom. The Khanda river cuts across the range further south. The smaller Kyllakh Range rises west of the Khanda valley, in the sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena (river)
The Lena (russian: Ле́на, ; evn, Елюенэ, ''Eljune''; sah, Өлүөнэ, ''Ölüöne''; bua, Зүлхэ, ''Zülkhe''; mn, Зүлгэ, ''Zülge'') is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Yenisey). Permafrost underlies most of the catchment, 77% of which is continuous. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The Lena is the eleventh-longest river in the world, and the longest river entirely within Russia. Course Originating at an elevation of at its source in the Baikal Mountains south of the Central Siberian Plateau, west of Lake Baikal, the Lena flows northeast across the Lena-Angara Plateau, being joined by the Kirenga, Vitim and Olyokma. From Yakutsk it enters the Central Yakutian Lowland and flows north until joined by its right-hand tributary the Aldan and its most important left-hand tributary, the Vilyuy. After that, it bends westward and northward, flowing between t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldan (river)
The Aldan (russian: Алдан) is the second-longest, right tributary of the Lena in the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia.Алдан (река в Якут. АССР) The river is long, of which around is navigable. It has a drainage basin of . The river was part of the River Route to . In 1639 Ivan Moskvitin a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
