The Sinyaya (russian: Синяя; sah, Сиинэ, ''Siine'') is a river in the
Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...
,
Russia. It is a left
tributary of the
Lena. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
Course
The river begins in the Tampa-Ottoowo, a small lake located in the
Lena Plateau at an elevation of . It flows roughly southeastwards and there are about 3,300 lakes in its basin. In its lower course the river is flanked by picturesque
rock formation
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s, the
Sinyaya Pillars
lv, Zilupe be, Сінюха
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. The Sinyaya meets the left bank of the Lena near
Sinsk, upstream from
Yakutsk and from the Lena's mouth.
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The Sinyaya freezes between October and May. From the end of May to June it flows at a high level owing to the melting of snow and the flow recedes in the summer. The area of the river basin is largely uninhabited. The river flows across three districts,
Verkhnevilyuy,
Gorny and
Khangalassky.
[''Sinyaya'' // Great Soviet Encyclopedia, in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-197]
The main tributaries of the Sinyaya are the Khangdaryma, Appaya and Chyna on the right and the
Matta, Mekele, Chyra and Nuoraldyma on the left.
See also
*
List of rivers of Russia
References
External links
*{{commonscat inline, Sinyaya (Lena tributary)
Geography - Yakutia Organized Rivers of the Sakha Republic