The Syungyude (russian: Сюнгююдэ, sah, Сүҥгүдэ, ''Süŋgüde'') is a river in the
Sakha Republic (Yakutia),
Russia
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. It is the largest tributary of the
Molodo, of the
Lena basin. Its length is and the area of its basin .
The Syungyude flows across the
Zhigansky and
Bulunsky district. The banks of the river are uninhabited.
Geography
The Syungyude originates in the eastern
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 ...
. In its upper course it flows southeast for a long distance, finally descending into a
floodplain
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. It
meander
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s strongly just north of the
Motorchuna, flowing parallel to it until it turns northeast and then NNE in a wide arc. In its last stretch the Syungyude flows roughly northwards with the floodplain of the Lena to the east. It runs parallel to the great river until it joins the right bank of the Molodo upstream of its mouth in the Lena.
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Tributaries
The longest tributary of the Syungyude is the long Kyuskyurdeen (Кюскюрдьээн), joining it from the left.
Other major triutaries are the long Kisiliike, long Kharyyalaakh, long Kurung-Yurege and long Muuna from the left, as well as the long Ulakhan-Orusuoka, long Orusuoka-Syra, long Orusuoka, long Khaiyrgastaakh, long Serpekelekh and long Argaa-Salaa from the right.
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See also
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
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External links
Сусов Михаил Васильевич. ''Геология в письмах.'' Москва, издательство Рунета, 2010 г. - Река Сюнгююдэ
(Study of Upper Jurassic diamond-bearing conglomerates in the Sungyuyude River valley)
Rivers of the Sakha Republic