The Delinya (; ) is a river in
Tompo District
Tomponsky District (; , ''Tompo uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the administrative divisions of the Sakha Republic, thirty-four in the Sakha Rep ...
,
Yakutia
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(Sakha Republic),
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, a right tributary of the
Tompo
The Tompo (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan (river), Aldan, part of the Lena (river), Lena basin. It has a length of and a drainage basin area of .
River Tompo gives its name to the Tompo Di ...
, part 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 Repub ...
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Lena basin. It has a length of and a
drainage basin
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area of .
The river flows across a desolate area of
Tompo District
Tomponsky District (; , ''Tompo uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the administrative divisions of the Sakha Republic, thirty-four in the Sakha Rep ...
. The nearest inhabited place is
Topolinoye
Topolinoye () is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Tomponsky National Rural Okrug of the Tompo District in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located on the left bank of the Tompo River ...
, located by the banks of the
Tompo
The Tompo (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan (river), Aldan, part of the Lena (river), Lena basin. It has a length of and a drainage basin area of .
River Tompo gives its name to the Tompo Di ...
, to the south of its confluence with the Delinya.
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The name of both the river and the lake is derived from the
Even ''Delinde'', meaning "big
taimen
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."
Course
The Delinya originates in an area of high-altitude lakes of the
Elgi Plateau
The Elgi Plateau (;Soviet General Topographic Maps P-54-V,VI ) is a plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russian Federation.
The area is named after the Elgi River, a left tributary of the Indigirka. Formerly there was th ...
. It has its sources very close to lake Delinya, with an area of , and flows across it.
[ The river heads roughly westwards across the mountain area and then it bends southwestwards and flows southwards with the Khunkhadin Range to the west. Finally if meets the right bank of the ]Tompo
The Tompo (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan (river), Aldan, part of the Lena (river), Lena basin. It has a length of and a drainage basin area of .
River Tompo gives its name to the Tompo Di ...
from its confluence with the Aldan.[1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet D-8]
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Tributaries
The main tributaries of the Delinya are the long Singyami on the left, as well as the long Noluchu and the long Imnekan on the right. The river is fed by snow and rain. It freezes before mid October and stays frozen until the second half of May. There are 860 lakes in the river basin.[
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See also
*List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European and an 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. The Asian part is drained i ...
* Yana-Oymyakon Highlands#Hydrography
References
External links
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2017. Дороги Арктики. Зимник «Яна - Drive2 (Winter road along the Delinya riverbed)
Rivers of the Sakha Republic
Tomponsky District