Anadyrskiy Liman () or Anadyr Estuary is an estuary on the

Gulf of Anadyr The Gulf of Anadyr, or Anadyr Bay (), is a large bay on the Bering Sea in far northeast Siberia. It has a total surface area of Location The bay is roughly rectangular and opens to the southeast. The corners are (clockwise from the south) Cape ...

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Geography

It is called a liman because it is separated from the Gulf of Anadyr by the Russkaya Koshka spit in the north and another spit (Geka Point) in the south. The channel into the Gulf of Anadyr through the bar is in the east. The

Anadyr Lowlands The Anadyr Lowlands () are a low alluvial plain located in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Geography The lowlands are crossed by the Anadyr River in the middle and the Velikaya in the south. They are bound by ...

are located to the west.

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Anadyrskiy Liman is divided into three parts. The outer bay receives the Tretya River (its mouth is the notch on the south shore). The southern part of the outer bay is shallow. The inner bay is called Onemen Bay and receives the

Velikaya The Velikaya () is a river in Novosokolnichesky, Pustoshkinsky, Sebezhsky, Opochetsky, Pushkinogorsky, Ostrovsky, Palkinsky, and Pskovsky Districts of Pskov Oblast, as well as in the city of Pskov in Russia. It is the largest tributary of ...

through a narrow bay on the southwest. They are separated by a promontory, with the town of Anadyr at its tip. North of the promontory is a series of lakes which form the mouth of the Kanchalan River. The

Anadyr River The Anadyr (; Yukaghir: Онандырь; ) is a river in the far northeast of Siberia which flows into the Gulf of Anadyr of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Its basin corresponds to the Anadyrsky ...

enters the inner bay from the west. The lake south of the Anadyr in this image is Lake Krasnoye.United States Hydrographic Office (1909)
Asiatic pilot, Volume 1.
Issues 122-126; Issue 162 of H.O. pub. Gov. Printing Off., Washington. pp 50-51.

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Geonames Estuaries of Russia Bodies of water of the Bering Sea Bodies of water of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug {{ChukotkaAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub