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Indigirka
The Indigirka ( rus, Индиги́рка, r=; sah, Индигиир, translit=Indigiir) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana to the west and the Kolyma to the east. It is long. The area of its basin is . History The isolated village of Russkoye Ustye, located on the delta of the Indigirka, is known for the unique traditional culture of the Russian settlers whose ancestors came there several centuries ago. Some historians have speculated that Russkoye Ustye was settled by Pomors in the early 17th century. In 1638 explorer Ivan Rebrov reached the Indigirka. In 1636–42 Elisei Buza pioneered the overland route to the Indigirka river system. At about the same time, Poznik Ivanov ascended a tributary of the lower Lena, crossed the Verkhoyansk Range to the upper Yana, and then crossed the Chersky Range to the Indigirka. In 1642 Mikhail Stadukhin reached the Indigirka overland from the Lena. Zashiversk on the Indigirka was an important colonial outpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yana-Indigirka Lowland
The Yana-Indigirka Lowland (russian: Яно-Индигирская низменность; sah, Дьааҥы - Индигир намтала) is a large, low alluvial plain located in northern Siberia, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Administratively most of the territory of the lowland is part of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). There are inhabited centers of population in the lowlands such as Chokurdakh, Olenegorsk and Nizhneyansk, but these are very few and scattered. Geography The lowland is named after the Yana River in the west and the Indigirka River in the east and is crossed by both rivers in their middle and lower courses. The area is mostly flat and very marshy, its northern limits extending for over from the Buor Khaya Gulf of the Laptev Sea in the west to the delta of river Indigirka in the East Siberian Sea in the east. It is limited by the Kyundyulyun, the northern end of the Selennyakh Range and the Polousny Range in the south. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuora-Yuryakh
The Khastakh or Tuora-Yuryakh (russian: Хастах; sah, Хаастаах, ''Xaastaax'') is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is one of the two tributaries giving origin to the Indigirka. The river has a length of and a drainage basin area of . The upper stretch of its course is also known as Khalkan. The river flows south of the Arctic Circle, across desolate tundra territories of the Oymyakonsky District marked by mountainous terrain and permafrost. Course The Khastakh is a left tributary of the Indigirka. It has its sources in the southern slopes of the Khalkan Range (Халканский хребет), a subrange of the Suntar-Khayata, by the border with Okhotsky District of Khabarovsk Krai. The river flows roughly in a northern direction into a basin of the Yana-Oymyakon Highlands filled with lakes where it meanders and divides into multiple channels. Finally the river joins the Taryn-Yuryakh flowing from the right to form the head of the Indigir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russkoye Ustye
Russkoye Ustye (russian: Ру́сское У́стье; sah, Русскай Устье) is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Russko-Ustinsky Rural Okrug of Allaikhovsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Chokurdakh, the administrative center of the district.''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'' Its population as of the 2010 Census was 157,Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Results of the 2010 All-Russian CensusЧисленность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам(''Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities'') down from 181 recorded during the 2002 Census. For several decades during the Soviet era, it was officially called Polyarnoye (). Etymology The locality's name is probably based on the name of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Siberian Lowland
The East Siberian Lowland ( rus, Восточно-Сибирская низменность), also known as Yana-Kolyma Lowland,Oleg Leonidovič Kryžanovskij, ''A Checklist of the Ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands.'' p. 16 is a vast plain in Northeastern Siberia, Russia.Yana-Indigirka and Kolyma lowlands (physical map, scale 1: 2 500 000) // National Atlas of Russia . - M .: Roskartografiya, 2004. - T. 1. - S. 260—261. - 496 p. - The territory of the lowland is one of the Great Russian Regions. Administratively it is part of the |
Chersky Range
The Chersky Range (, ) is a chain of mountains in northeastern Siberia between the Yana River and the Indigirka River. Administratively the area of the range belongs to the Sakha Republic, although a small section in the east is within Magadan Oblast. The highest peak in the range is tall Peak Pobeda, part of the Ulakhan-Chistay Range. The range also includes important places of traditional Yakut culture, such as Ynnakh Mountain ''(Mat'-Gora)'' and kigilyakh rock formations. The Moma Natural Park is a protected area located in the southern zone of the range. History At some time between 1633 and 1642 Poznik Ivanov ascended a tributary of the lower Lena, crossed the Verkhoyansk Range to the upper Yana and then crossed the Chersky Range to the Indigirka. The range was sighted in 1926 by Sergei Obruchev ( Vladimir Obruchev's son) and named by the Russian Geographical Society after the Polish explorer and geographer Ivan Chersky (or Jan Czerski). Geography The geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yana (river)
The Yana ( rus, Я́на, p=ˈjanə; sah, Дьааҥы, ''Caañı'') is a river in Sakha in Russia, located between the Lena to the west and the Indigirka to the east. Course It is long, and its drainage basin covers . Including its longest source river, the Sartang, it is long. Its annual discharge totals approximately . Most of this discharge occurs in May and June as the ice on the river breaks up. The Yana freezes up on the surface in October and stays under the ice until late May or early June. In the Verkhoyansk area, it stays frozen to the bottom for 70 to 110 days, and partly frozen for 220 days of the year. The river begins at the confluence of the rivers Sartang and Dulgalakh in the Yana-Oymyakon Highlands. It flows north across the vast Yana-Indigirka Lowland, part of the greater East Siberian Lowland, shared with the Indigirka to the east. As the river flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea, it forms a huge river delta covering . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moma (river)
The Moma (russian: Мома; sah, Муома) is a river in Yakutia in Russia, a right tributary of the Indigirka. The length of the river is , the area of its drainage basin is . The extinct cinder cone volcanoes Balagan-Tas and Uraga-Tas are some of the main features of the Moma Natural Park. Course The Moma originates from Lake Sisyktyah on the northern slope of the Ulakhan Chistay Range, the highest subrange of the Chersky Range.''Ulakhan Chistay'' / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017. The river flows in the wide intermontane basin separating the Ulakhan Chistay Range from the Moma Range in the north and flows into the Indigirka about from its mouth. There are black coal deposits in the river basin. The district centre – the village of Khonuu – is located at the mouth of the river. Etymology The name comes from the Evenki language Evenki (Ewenkī), formerly known as Tungus or Solon, is the largest member of the nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polousny Range
The Polousny Range ( rus, Полоусный кряж; sah, Полоуснай томтороот) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.Полоусный кряж (Polousny Range) / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017. This range is one of the areas of Yakutia where kigilyakhs are found. History The area of the Polousny Range was first mapped by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia. The Chondon mammoth was discovered in 2013, at the feet of the Polousny Range in the Chondon basin, 66 km south-west of the village of Tumat. Geography The Polousny Range is part of the Momsko-Chersk Mountain Region (russian: Момско-Черская область). It rises in the southern area of the Yana-Indigirka Lowland, north of the Aby Lowland in the Sakha region. It is made up of mountains of middle height and smooth slo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Siberian Sea
The East Siberian Sea ( rus, Восто́чно-Сиби́рское мо́ре, r=Vostochno-Sibirskoye more) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape to the north, the coast of Siberia to the south, the New Siberian Islands to the west and Cape Billings, close to Chukotka, and Wrangel Island to the east. This sea borders on the Laptev Sea to the west and the Chukchi Sea to the east. This sea is one of the least studied in the Arctic area. It is characterized by severe climate, low water salinity, and a scarcity of flora, fauna and human population, as well as shallow depths (mostly less than 50 m), slow sea currents, low tides (below 25 cm), frequent fogs, especially in summer, and an abundance of ice fields which fully melt only in August–September. The sea shores were inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of Yukaghirs, Chukchi and then Evens and Evenks, which were engaged in fishing, hunting and reindeer husba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolyma River
The Kolyma ( rus, Колыма, p=kəlɨˈma; sah, Халыма, translit=Khalyma) is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Magadan Oblast of Russia. The Kolyma is frozen to depths of several metres for about 250 days each year, becoming free of ice only in early June, until October. Course The Kolyma begins at the confluence of the Kulu and the Ayan-Yuryakh, originating in the Khalkan Range and flows across the Upper Kolyma Highlands in its upper course. Leaving the mountainous areas it flows roughly northwards across the Kolyma Lowland, a vast plain dotted with thousands of lakes, part of the greater East Siberian Lowland. The river empties into the Kolyma Gulf of the East Siberian Sea, a division of the Arctic Ocean. The Kolyma is long. The area of its basin is . The average discharge at Kolymskoye is , with a high of reported in June 1985, and a low of in April 1979. Tributaries The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kondakov Plateau
The Kondakov Plateau ( rus, Кондаковское плоскогорье; sah, Кондаков хаптал хайалаах сирэ) is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The town of Chokurdakh is located on the other bank of the Indigirka, facing the plateau. The nearest airport is Chokurdakh Airport. The Shandrin mammoth was discovered in 1974 at the feet of a steep slope in the eastern side of the Kondakov Plateau by geologist B. S. Rusanov of the Yakutsk Institute of Geology. Geography The Kondakov Plateau is located in eastern Yakutia, rising above the right banks of the lower course of the Indigirka and gradually decreasing in elevation to the east. Slopes are generally smooth and gentle and the average height of the plateau surface is between and . There are slightly higher ridges cutting across the plateau area, the Bonga-Taga ridge in the north and the Mokholukan in the south. The highest point is high Punga K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ust-Nera
Ust-Nera ( rus, Усть-Нера, r=; sah, Уус Ньара, translit=Uus Nyara) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Oymyakonsky District in Yakutia, Russia. Located in one of the coldest permanently inhabited regions on Earth, Ust-Nera is approximately northeast of the republic's capital, Yakutsk. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 6,463. Geography Ust-Nera is located at the confluence of the Nera and Indigirka Rivers, from which it takes its name (the ''ust-'' part means ''river mouth'' in Russian). Ust-Nera is located about north of the '' selo'' of Oymyakon, which one of two places in the Sakha Republic (the other being Verkhoyansk) which lays claim to being the northern Pole of Cold, the coldest location in the northern hemisphere. The Tas-Kystabyt, Silyap Range and the Nera Plateau are located in the district. Climate Ust-Nera has an extremely cold subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification ''Dw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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