Seymchan Meteorite

	Seymchan Meteorite Seymchan may refer to: Seymchan (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Magadan Oblast, Russia Seymchan (Kolyma), a tributary of the Kolyma Seymchan Airport, an airport in Magadan Oblast Seymchan (meteorite) Seymchan is a pallasite meteorite found in the dry bed of the river Hekandue, a left tributary of river Yasachnaya in the Magadan district, Russia, near the settlement of Seymchan, in June 1967. History The main mass of was found during a surv ... , a meteorite found in 1967 in Russia {{Geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Seymchan (urban-type Settlement) Seymchan ( rus, Сеймча́н, p=sʲɪjmˈtɕan) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Srednekansky District of Magadan Oblast, Russia. Population: Geography Seymchan is located in the Seymchan-Buyunda Depression, which limits the Upper Kolyma Highlands from the east. The town lies on the right bank of the Seymchan River, near its confluence with the Kolyma, about north of Magadan. Google Earth History The settlement was founded in the late 17th century by Yakuts. Its name derives from the Yakut language word ''Kheymchen'', meaning Polynya. In the 19th century, the trade route between the Kolyma region and the Sea of Okhotsk, the ''Ola-Kolyma-Trakt'' was constructed through the settlement. Economic development of the settlement increased with the opening of the first gold mines in 1931, and the discovery and later exploitation of brown coal reserves at Elgen in 1932, tin reserves in 1937 and cobalt ore in the early 1940s. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Seymchan (Kolyma) The Seymchan (russian: Сеймчан) is a river in Srednekansky District, Magadan Oblast, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Kolyma, with a length of a drainage basin of . The name comes from the Yakut language word Kheymchen, which is an area of open water surrounded by sea ice.W.J. Stringer and J.E. Groves. 1991''Extent of Polynyas in the Bering and Chukchi Seas''/ref> Course The river rises in the Upper Kolyma Highlands, eastern limits of the Chersky Range, at the confluence of Left Seymchan and Right Seymchan. It flows first in a northeast direction, bending along its course until it flows in a southeastern direction. Finally it meets the Kolyma near Seymchan, from its mouth, downstream from the mouth of the Buyunda on the opposite bank. Together with the Buyunda that flows roughly northwards on the other side of the Kolyma basin, the Seymchan forms the Seymchan-Buyunda Depression, which limits the Upper Kolyma Highlands from the east. Its main tributaries are the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Seymchan Airport Seymchan Airport (russian: Аэропорт Сеймчан) is an airport in Magadan Oblast, Russia located two kilometers southeast of Seymchan. The runway is well-maintained. The facility is marked as military on some US DoD charts. Airlines and Destinations Commercial trips by helicopter are made from this airport to arranged destinations in the wilderness, for example, for hunters. History Seymchan Airport connected Zyryanka West Airport (UESU) to Oymyakon on the ALSIB Alaska-Siberian air route during the World War II Lend-Lease program. Incidents and accidents Commercial flights from Seymchan to nearby remote areas using the local forest fire protection service's Mi-8 helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attribut ...s are routine. On 15 September 2007 on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]