The Debin () is a river in the
Yagodninsky district of
Magadan Oblast
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,
Russia
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. It is a left hand tributary of the
Kolyma
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. Its length is , counting the length of the Archagyl stream at its head, and it has a
drainage basin
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of .
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Yagodnoye village is located on the left bank of the Debin; the R504 Kolyma Highway
The R504 Kolyma Highway (, ''Federal'naya Avtomobil'naya Doroga «Kolyma»,'' "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road through the Russian Far East. It connects Magadan with the town of Nizhny Bestyakh, located ...
crosses the river in its middle course and runs on the northern side of the river, roughly parallel to its lower course until it bends northwards near Debin.[Google Maps](_blank)
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The name of the river is based on the Yakut
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* Yakuts, the Turkic peoples indigenous to the Sakha Republic
* Yakut language, a Turkic language
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word ''"daebin"'' (дьэбин), meaning "rust
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".[Leontyev V.V. , Novikova K.A. ''Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR'' / Scientific ed. G. A. Menovschikov ; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institute for Archeology, History and Ethnography. - ]Magadan
Magadan ( rus, Магадан, p=məɡɐˈdan) is a Port of Magadan, port types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative centre of Magadan Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the isthmus of the Staritsky Peninsula by the ...
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History
Since the 1960s placer gold
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Placer mining is frequently used for precious metal deposits (particularly ...
deposits have been exploited in the Debin river basin. As a result, there has been much environmental degradation
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in certain places. Some of the settlements involved in mining operations in the river basin have been abandoned. Only the villages of Burkhala, located near the R504 Highway bridge, and Senokosny, near Yagodnoye have survived, albeit with only a residual population.
Course
The Debin has its sources in the eastern slopes of Mount Spornaya, east of the highest point of the Cherge Range at the eastern end of the Chersky Range
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, where it overlaps with the Upper Kolyma Highlands
The Upper Kolyma Highlands () is a highland area in Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The biggest town in the highlands is Susuman.
There are large deposits of gold, tin and rare metals in the Upper Kolyma Highlands. The area ...
. There is continuous permafrost
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in the area. The river heads first in a roughly southeastern direction through a narrow valley. It bends to the east in its lower course, meandering in a floodplain
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with lakes.airfield
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south of the mouth area, with a road connecting it to Debin.
See also
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
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External links
Ust-Srednekan hydroelectric power plant
Rivers of Magadan Oblast