Assel (russian: Ассель; ba, Әселе, ''Äsele'') is a river in

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, that flows through

Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блик� ...

and the Orenburg Oblast. The river mouth is 14 km along the left bank of the Bolshoy Ik. The river is 51 km long and the

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area is 358 km². At 11 km from the mouth, the river Yuldybayevo flows into the left bank. The name of the river came from the Bashkir language. The part ''эсе'' means "

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", and ''-ле'' is a word-formation affix. The other name of the river is Albayevka (Альбаевка).

Water registry data

According to the Russian State Water Register, the river belongs to the water management of the Bolshoy Ik in the

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. Code of the object in the State Water Register is 12010000612112200006368.

In culture

The

Asselian In the geologic timescale, the Asselian is the earliest geochronologic age or lowermost chronostratigraphic stage of the Permian. It is a subdivision of the Cisuralian Epoch or Series. The Asselian lasted between and million years ago (Ma) ...

geochronologic age is named after the river.The Nonmarine Permian: Volume 30 of Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, page 48. Editors Spencer G. Lucas, Kate E. Zeigler, 2005

References

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