Yanragytgyn (; ) is a freshwater lake in

Anadyr District Anadyrsky District (; Chukchi language, Chukchi: , ''Kagyrgyn rajon'') is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #148-OZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Rus ...

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Chukotka ( ; ), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is the easternmost federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia. It is an Autonomous okrugs of Russia, autonomous okrug situated in the Russian Far East, and shares a border wi ...

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It has an area of . There are no permanent settlements on the shores of the lake. The name of the lake in

Chukot Chukchi ( ), also known as Chukot, is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages, Chukotko–Kamchatkan language spoken by the Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The language is closely related to K ...

means "a separate lake."Leontiev V.V. & Novikova K.A. ''Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR'' / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House, 1989 .

Geography

Yanragytgyn lies close to the northern slopes of the Ukvushvuynen Range, part of the

Koryak Mountains The Koryak Mountains or Koryak Highlands () are an area of mountain ranges in Far-Eastern Siberia, Russia, located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and in Kamchatka Krai, with a small part in Magadan Oblast. The highest point in the system is the M ...

. It is located southwest of lake Krasnoye and northwest of lake Maynits. The lake is roughly pear-shaped and stretches roughly from north to south. The southern section includes a few small islands close to the shore.1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet C-8
/ref> Yanragytgyn lies in a swampy flat area of the southwestern part of the

Anadyr Lowland The Anadyr Lowlands () are a low alluvial plain located in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Geography The lowlands are crossed by the Anadyr River in the middle and the Velikaya River (Chukotka), Velikaya in th ...

dotted with

thermokarst Thermokarst is a type of terrain characterised by very irregular surfaces of marshy hollows and small hummocks formed when ice-rich permafrost thaws. The land surface type occurs in Arctic areas, and on a smaller scale in mountainous areas such ...

lakes. An unnamed tributary of the Chirynay of the

Velikaya The Velikaya () is a river in Novosokolnichesky, Pustoshkinsky, Sebezhsky, Opochetsky, Pushkinogorsky, Ostrovsky, Palkinsky, and Pskovsky Districts of Pskov Oblast, as well as in the city of Pskov in Russia. It is the largest tributary of ...

basin, flows out of the southern lakeshore. The lake freezes in October and stays under ice until June.Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - Water of Russia
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Рыбалка на морях, реках и озерах Чукотки. (Fishing)
Lakes of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Anadyrsky District

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