The Kara (russian: Ка́ра) is a river draining to the Arctic
Kara Sea
The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipela ...
in Russia. It flows through the
Pai-Khoi Range
The Pay-Khoy Range ( rus, хребет Пай-Хой) is a mountain range at the northern end of the Ural Mountains. It lies within the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Geography
The ridge is extended from northwest to southeast. It is located on the Y ...
in the
Polar Ural region, and forms parts of the borders between the
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO; russian: Яма́ло-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг (ЯНАО), ; yrk, Ямалы-Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ) or Yamalia (russian: Ямалия) is a fe ...
, the
Nenets Autonomous Okrug
The Nenets Autonomous Okrug (russian: Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг; Nenets: Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ''Nenjocije awtonomnoj ŋokruk'') is a federal subject of Russia and an autonomous okrug of ...
and the
Komi Republic
The Komi Republic (russian: Республика Коми; kv, Коми Республика), sometimes simply referred to as Komi, is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. Its capital is the city of Syktyvkar. The population of th ...
.
The length of the river, from the confluence of the Malaya and Bolshaya Kara to the mouth in the
Baydaratskaya Bay
Baydaratskaya Bay or Baydarata Bay (russian: Байдарацкая губа, Baydaratskaya guba, Tundra Nenets: Пэдарита, ''Pėdarita'') is a gulf in Russia, located in the southern part of the Kara Sea between the coastline of the Pol ...
is . Its drainage basin area is .
The settlement of
Ust-Kara is near the river mouth. The name of the river is derived from
Nenets word meaning "
hummocked ice".
[V.Yu. Vize, ''Karskoye more // Morya Sovetskoy Arktiki: Ocherki po istorii issledovaniya'' (Leningrad, 1939) — pp. 180—217]
References
Rivers of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Rivers of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Rivers of the Komi Republic
Drainage basins of the Kara Sea
{{Russia-river-stub