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

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. It is the major tributary of the

Alazeya The Alazeya ( rus, Алазея, r=; sah, Алаһыай, translit=Alahıay) is a river in the northeastern part of Sakha Republic, Yakutia, Russia which flows into the Arctic between the basins of the larger Indigirka to the west and the Kolyma R ...

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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 The Arga-Yuryakh (russian: Арга-Юрях; sah, Арҕаа Үрэх, ''Arğaa Ürex'') is a river in Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is one of the major tributaries of the Omoloy. The river has a length of and a drainage basin area of ...

in the

Kolyma Lowland The Kolyma Lowland (russian: Колымская низменность) is a lowland plain in the northeastern parts of Sakha Republic in the basin of the Alazeya, Bolshaya Chukoch'ya and lower reaches of the Kolyma rivers. The lowland is formed ...

. The original sources of the uppermost river in the network are in the

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

. The Rassokha flows across the Middle Kolyma District and the

Lower Kolyma District Nizhnekolymsky District (russian: Нижнеколы́мский улу́с; sah, Аллараа Халыма улууһа, ''Allaraa Khalyma uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III distric ...

in an area marked by

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, 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

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of the Rassokha basin, together with the

Kondakov Plateau The Kondakov Plateau ( rus, Кондаковское плоскогорье; sah, Кондаков хаптал хайалаах сирэ) is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The town of Chokurdak ...

and the

Suor Uyata The Suor Uyata ( rus, Суор-Уята; sah, Суор Уйата) 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 ...

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

Sundrun The Sundrun (russian: Сундрун) 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 th ...

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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 {{Russia-river-stub

Geography

Fauna

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