The Shangina (; , ''Şangin'') is a river in Yakutia (

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. It has a length of and a

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of . It is a right tributary of the Indigirka, flowing across the Middle Kolyma and Aby districts. The river usually freezes in early October and stays frozen until late May or early June.

History

In the summer of 1870 the Shangina was explored by geographer and ethnologist Baron

Gerhard von Maydell Gerhard Gustav Ludwig von Maydell, Baron von Maydell, (; 1 May 1835 in Tartu – 17 August 1894 in Koblenz, Germany) was a Russian explorer, cartographer and ethnologist of Estonian descent. He is known for his pioneering research in the Russian F ...

(1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia. After he charted the Suor-Uyata and

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

ranges of the East Siberian Lowlands, Maydell reached the

Indigirka The Indigirka (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana to the west and the Kolyma to the east. It is long. The area of its basin is . History The isolated village of Russkoye Ustye, located on the delta of the Indigi ...

. Going about upriver he found out that the Ulakhan-Sis was separated from the

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to the south by the roughly wide plain of the Shangina. Магидович И. П., Магидович В. И. Очерки по истории географических открытий. — М., 1985. — Т. IV. — С. 100. — 335 с.

Course

The Shangina river begins in the northern part of the

. It heads first roughly eastwards then descends into in a wide floodplain where it heads northwestwards. There are many lakes in the middle and lower part of the basin. Finally the Shangina joins the right bank of the Indigirka from its mouth. There are no inhabited places in its course. Its main tributary is the long Ogustakh on the right.

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Meteorological stations and hydrological gauges within the study basins
Rivers of the Sakha Republic

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