The Belyanka (russian: Белянка; sah, Белянка) is a river in the Sakha Republic (
Yakutia
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far ...
),
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...
, a right tributary of the
Lena
Lena or LENA may refer to:
Places
* Léna Department, a department of Houet Province in Burkina Faso
* Lena, Manitoba, an unincorporated community located in Killarney-Turtle Mountain municipality in Manitoba, Canada
* Lena, Norway, a village in ...
. It has a length of — counting the Munni at its head— and a drainage basin area of .
There are no settlements in the basin of the river. The nearest village is
Batamay, located to the east of its mouth in the Lena.
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Course
The Belyanka originates in the
Munni Range
The Munni Range (russian: Муннийский Хребет; sah, Мунньи сис) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Sakha Republic, Russian Federation.
Geography
The Munni Range ...
at the confluence of rivers
Munni from the west and Tagyndzha from the east in the southwestern area of the
Verkhoyansk Range
The Verkhoyansk Range (russian: Верхоянский хребет, ''Verkhojanskiy Khrebet''; sah, Үөһээ Дьааҥы сис хайата, ''Üöhee Chaangy sis khaĭata'') is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Russia near the settl ...
. The Munni flows from the slopes of the
Tagindzhin Range and its valley is bound by the eastern end of the
Muosuchan Range.
In the upper section of its course the Belyanka river cuts across the mountainous terrain of the
Sorkin Range heading roughly southwards in a narrow valley. Soon it leaves the mountainous area and flows southwards flowing slowly and dividing into branches across the
Central Yakutian Lowland
The Central Yakutian LowlandJohn Kimble (ed.), ''Cryosols: Permafrost-Affected Soils'' or Central Yakutian Lowlands (russian: Центральноякутская равнина; sah, Саха сирин ортоку намтала), also known as ...
in a wide
floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...
. Close to its last stretch there are lakes and marshes. Finally the Belyanka meets the right bank of the Lena from its mouth, a little upstream from
Sangar and downstream of the mouth of the
Batamay and the confluence of the
Aldan Aldan may refer to:
;People
*Gille Aldan, the first bishop of Galloway, Scotland
*Andrey Aldan-Semenov (1908–1985), Russian writer
*Duke Aldan, a fictional character in ''Langrisser IV'' video game
;Places
* Aldan, Russia, a town in the Sakha Re ...
.
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The river freezes between mid October and the end of May.
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Fauna
The waters of the Belyanka are very clear. Lenok
Lenoks, otherwise known as Asiatic trout or Manchurian trout,James Card: Fly fishing in South Korea.' Retrieved 22 June 2015. are salmonid fish of the genus ''Brachymystax'', native to rivers and lakes in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, wider Siberia (incl ...
, taimen, grayling
Grayling or Greyling may refer to:
Animals Fish
* Grayling, generically, any fish of the genus ''Thymallus'' in the family Salmonidae
** European grayling (''Thymallus thymallus''), the European species of the genus ''Thymallus''
** Arctic grayli ...
and whitefish are among the fish species found in the river.Белянка , Якутия, фото, рыбалка
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See also
*List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European Russia, European and an North Asia, Asian part. The dividing line is generally considered to be the Ural Mountains. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea. Th ...
References
External links
Рыбалка на Белянке. Ленок на мышь
Rivers of the Sakha Republic
Verkhoyansk Range
Central Yakutian Lowland
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