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Kara (Shilka Tributary)
The Kara is a river in Transbaikalia, in Eastern Siberia. It is a left tributary of the Shilka, with the mouth at Ust-Karsk. It is long. In 1832 gold was found by the Kara. The deposit by the river was one of the richest in Transbaikalia. To man the gold mines, the system of Kara katorga Kara katorga () was the name for a set of katorga prisons of extremely high security located along the Kara River in Transbaikalia (a tributary of the Shilka River, flowing into it at Ust-Karsk) and part of the system of Nerchinsk katorga. G ... prisons (1830–98) was established. References Rivers of Zabaykalsky Krai {{FarEast-Russia-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shilka (river)
The Shilka (; Evenki language, Evenki: Силькари, Sil'kari; , ''Shilke''; , ''Shilka''; ) is a river in Zabaykalsky Krai, (Dauria) south-eastern Russia. It has a length of , and has a drainage basin of .Шилка (река) Great Soviet Encyclopedia The name derives from Evenki language, Evenki ''shilki'' 'narrow valley.'E.M. Pospelov, ''Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira'' (Moscow: Russkie slovari, 1998), p. 473. Course It originates as the Confluence (geography), confluence of the rivers Onon (river), Onon and Ingoda (river), Ingoda. Its confluence with the Argun (Amur), Argun on the Russia-China border gives rise to the Amur. The river is navigable for its entire length. The town Sretensk lies on the Shilka.Tributaries The largest tributaries of the Shilka ar ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders of Russia, land borders with fourteen countries. Russia is the List of European countries by population, most populous country in Europe and the List of countries and dependencies by population, ninth-most populous country in the world. It is a Urbanization by sovereign state, highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, the List of metropolitan areas in Europe, most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and Society and culture in Saint Petersburg, cultural centre. Human settlement on the territory of modern Russia dates back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amur Watershed
The Amur River () or Heilong River ( zh, s=黑龙江) is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur ''proper'' is long, and has a drainage basin of .Амур (река в Азии) If including its , the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
