The Kazym (russian: Казы́м) is a river in
Beloyarsky District, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Beloyarsky District (russian: Белоя́рский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #43-oz and municipalLaw #63-oz district ( raion), one of the nine in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north ...
,
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 ...
. It is long, with a
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
of .
Its average discharge is .
The town of
Beloyarsky Beloyarsky (masculine), Beloyarskaya (feminine), or Beloyarskoye (neuter) may refer to:
* Beloyarsky District, several districts in Russia
*Beloyarsky Urban Settlement, a municipal formation in Beloyarsky Municipal District which the town of okrug s ...
is along the Kazym.
Course
The Kazym is a right
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainag ...
of the
Ob. Its sources are in the
Siberian Uvaly
Siberian Uvaly (russian: Сибирские Увалы) is a hilly region in the central part of the West Siberian Plain, Russia.
A sector of the hills is a protected area under the name Upper Taz Nature Reserve, which was established in Decemb ...
. It flows through the northern part of the
West Siberian Plain
The West Siberian Plain (russian: За́падно-Сиби́рская равни́на ''Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina'') is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River ...
meandering across a very swampy valley. There are numerous lakes in its basin, including the relatively large
Sorum-Lor and the
Saran-Kho-Lor. The Kazym river is fed mainly by snow. It freezes in early November and begins to thaw in late May.
Tributaries
The main tributaries of the Kazym are the long
Amnya, the long
Lykhn and the long
Pomut on the left, as well as the long
Sorum
''Sorum'' is a 2001 South Korean horror film and the feature film debut of director Yoon Jong-chan. Starring Kim Myung-min and Jang Jin-young, it tells the story of a young taxi driver who moves into a dilapidated old apartment building, the si ...
on the right.
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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
Rivers of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
West Siberian Plain
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