The Notora (; ) is a river in
Yakutia
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(Sakha Republic),
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, a left tributary of the
Aldan, part of the
Lena basin. It has a length of and a
drainage basin
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area of .
There is a bridge of the
Yakutsk —
Amga —
Ust-Maya
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highway across the river. It was inaugurated in November 2018.
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Course
The Notora has its sources in the fringes of the
Lena Plateau
The Lena Plateau, also known as Prilensky Plateau (; ), is one of the great plateaus of Siberia. Administratively it is mostly within the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), with a small sector in the Irkutsk Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. T ...
near
Amga village, not far to the southeast from the
Amga river valley.
[ The river flows roughly eastwards all along its course. In its last stretch it enters the wide ]floodplain
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of the Aldan and makes a slight bend to the northeast. Finally it meets the left bank of the Aldan River from its confluence with the Lena River
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.[1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet D-8]
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Tributaries
The main tributaries of the Notora are the long Khatarchyma (Uulakh-Salaa), the long Nyigirime and the long Dukha (Дьуха) on the left. The Notora is fed mainly by snow and rain. Floods are frequent in the summer and its flow decreases significantly in the winter. There are about 1,200 lakes in the river basin.
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Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. 2004—2017.
See also
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
External links
Sakha Press — В Якутии торжественно введена в эксплуатацию круглогодичная дорога «Амга – Усть-Мая»
(in Russian)
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Rivers of the Sakha Republic