The Rassokha (, also Россоха; ) is a river in the northeastern part of

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. It is the major tributary of the

Alazeya The Alazeya (; ) is a river in the northeastern part of Yakutia, Russia which flows into the Arctic between the basins of the larger Indigirka to the west and the Kolyma to the east. Mount Kisilyakh-Tas is a notable kigilyakh site on the right b ...

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Geography

The river is long. The area of its basin is . The Rassokha is formed by the confluence of the rivers Ilin-Yuryakh and Arga-Yuryakh in the Kolyma Lowland. The original sources of the uppermost river in the network are in the

Ulakhan-Sis Range The Ulakhan-Sis Range (; ) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.

. The Rassokha flows across the

Middle Kolyma District Srednekolymsky District (; , ''Orto Xalıma 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 ...

and the Lower Kolyma District in an area marked by

permafrost Permafrost () is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more; the oldest permafrost has been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years. Whilst the shallowest permafrost has a vertical extent of below ...

, with numerous swamps and lakes. Finally it joins the left bank of the Alazeya from its mouth.Rossokha - Water
(in Russian) The Rassokha has 145 tributaries that are longer than and in its basin there are 7,442 lakes with a total area of . The river freezes in late September through early October and stays icebound until the end of May.

Fauna

The forest tundra of the Rassokha basin, together with the

Kondakov Plateau The Kondakov Plateau (; ) is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The town of Chokurdakh is located on the other bank of the Indigirka, facing the plateau. The nearest airport is Chokurdakh Airport. Th ...

and the

Suor Uyata The Suor Uyata (; ) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The village of Andryushkino, a small inhabited locality of the Lower Kolyma District, is located to the SSE.Google Earth Kigilyakhs, rock fo ...

and the Ulakhan-Tas, is part of the migration corridor of the

Sundrun The Sundrun () is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Course It has its sources in the Ulakhan-Sis Range and flows roughly northeastwards across the Kondakov Plateau. Le ...

reindeer The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, taiga, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only re ...

population.Ivan Sivtsev , ''The Sundrun population of wild reindeer'', The Ninth North American Caribou Workshop, Kuujjuaq, Québec, Canada, .

References

Rivers of the Sakha Republic Tributaries of the Alazeya East Siberian Lowland {{FarEast-Russia-river-stub

Geography

Fauna

See also

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