The Alakit (russian: Алакит) is a river in
Yakutia
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far ...
(Sakha Republic),
Russia
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. It is a
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainag ...
of the
Olenyok Olenyok or Olenek may refer to:
* Olenyok (river), a river in Russia
* Olenyok (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Sakha Republic, Russia
*Olenyok Airport, an airport in the same rural locality
*Olenyok Gulf
The Olenyok Gulf, a ...
with a length of and a drainage basin area of .
The river flows across a lonely, desolate area of
Mirninsky and
Olenyoksky districts. Currently there are no settlements, but a small village named Alakit was located by the river in its upper course, a little upstream of the mouth of the Yuyose-Delingde, a left tributary.
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The Daldyn-Alakit
kimberlite
Kimberlite is an igneous rock and a rare variant of peridotite. It is most commonly known to be the main host matrix for diamonds. It is named after the town of Kimberley in South Africa, where the discovery of an diamond called the Star of S ...
field is located between the upper Alakit in the west and the Daldyn River by
Udachnaya
The Udachnaya pipe (russian: тру́бка Уда́чная, literally ''lucky pipe'') is a diamond deposit in the Daldyn-Alakit kimberlite field in Sakha Republic, Russia. It is an open-pit mine, and is located just outside the Arctic ci ...
in the east.
Course
The Alakit is a right tributary of the Olenyok. It originates in a small lake of the northeastern side of the
Central Siberian Plateau
The Central Siberian Plateau (russian: Среднесибирское плоскогорье, Srednesibirskoye ploskogorye; sah, Орто Сибиир хаптал хайалаах сирэ) is a vast mountainous area in Siberia, one of the Grea ...
. The river flows roughly northwestwards or northwards all along its course. In some stretches it forms
meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ban ...
s and there are lakes near its channel in certain sections of its course. Finally it meets the right bank of the Olenyok from its mouth.
The river is fed by rain and snow. Owing to the severe climate of the plateau it is frozen between early October and late May. The longest tributaries are the long Lower Bolshaya Kuonda and the long Upper Bolshaya Kuonda from the left, as well as the long Mastaakh from the right.
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See also
*List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European Russia, European and an North Asia, Asian part. The dividing line is generally considered to be the Ural Mountains. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea. Th ...
References
External links
Fishing & Tourism in Yakutia
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Rivers of the Sakha Republic
Central Siberian Plateau
Tributaries of the Olenyok