The Synya () is a river in
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
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,
Russia
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. The river is long — from the source of the Mokraya Synya at its head— and has a catchment area of .
The Synya flows across the
Shuryshkarsky District. It is navigable for , between its mouth in the Ob and
Ovgort village.
Course
The Synya is a left
tributary
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of the
Ob river
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. It has its sources at the confluence of the long Sukhaya Synya and the long Mokraya Synya, which flow from the eastern slopes of the
Polar Urals
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. The river flows initially southwards, then bends and flows eastwards, within a wide
floodplain
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located at the northwestern end of the
West Siberian Plain
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. Finally it meets the left bank of the Malaya Ob, an arm of the Ob, about from its mouth.
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Tributaries
The main tributaries of the Synya are the long
Lesmiyogan (Лесмиёган), the long
Nesyogan (Несъёган) and the long Bolshoy Tukshin (Большой Тукшин) from the right.
[ The river is fed predominantly by snow and is frozen between October and May.][Сыня](_blank)
''Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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'' in 30 vols. — Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov
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. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)
Fauna
The main fish species in the river are omul
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, peled
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* Amit Peled
* Benny Peled (1928–2002), commander of the Israeli Air Force
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, broad whitefish, sig, and tugun.
See also
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
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Rivers of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
West Siberian Plain
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