Indigirka
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Indigirka Индигирка |
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 The Indigirka in Ust-Nera |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | RU : 18050000112117700035295 | |
| location | Sakha Republic (Yakutia) ( Russia ) | |
| River system | Indigirka | |
| source |
Suntar Chajata 61 ° 54 ′ 9 " N , 142 ° 26 ′ 34" E |
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| Source height | 790 m | |
| muzzle |
East Siberian Sea Coordinates: 70 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ N , 148 ° 54 ′ 12 ″ E 70 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ N , 148 ° 54 ′ 12 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 0 m | |
| Height difference | 790 m | |
| Bottom slope | 0.46 ‰ | |
| length | 1726 km (with source river Chastach: 1977 km) | |
| Catchment area | 360,000 km² | |
| Discharge at the Indigirskiy A Eo gauge : 83,500 km² Location: 1412 km above the mouth |
MQ 1944/1999 Mq 1944/1999 |
421 m³ / s 5 l / (s km²) |
| Discharge at the Vorontsowo A Eo gauge : 305,000 km² Location: 350 km above the mouth |
MQ 1936/1998 Mq 1936/1998 |
1590 m³ / s 5.2 l / (s km²) |
| Discharge at the level near the mouth |
MQ |
1810 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Elgi , Selennjach , Ujandina , Allaicha , Bjorjoljoch , Tschibagalach | |
| Right tributaries | Nera , Moma , Badjaricha | |
| Small towns | Ust-Nera , Belaja Gora , Tschokurdach | |
| Communities | Oymyakon , Chonuu | |
| Navigable | Lower reaches from Moma estuary ( Chonuu , 1134 km), middle reaches around Ust-Nera | |
 Catchment area of the Indigirka |
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The Indigirka ( Russian Индигирка ; Yakut Индигир , Indigir ) is a 1726 km long river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in the Far East of Russia .
With its source river Chastach , it is 1977 km long. It rises in Ulus Oimjakon , then flows through the Ulusse Moma and Abyj and flows into the Ulus Allaicha in the Arctic Ocean .
River course
The Indigirka arises from the source rivers Chastach and Taryn-Jurjach , which arise in the Chankan ridge of the Suntar Chajata . First, the river turns to the north to pass through the highlands of Oimjakon and Oimjakon to chersky range to flow, which in a narrow, long and tortuous transverse valley is crossed. After leaving the Tscherski Mountains, the Indigirka passes the Arctic Circle and then reaches the Momagebirge , which it flows around in the northwest. There it reaches the wide Jana Indigirka lowlands (western part of the East Siberian lowlands ), in which it forms an approximately 5500 km² delta into the East Siberian Sea .
The largest tributaries are Nera , Moma and Badjaricha from the right, Elgi , Selennjach , Ujandina , Allaicha and Bjorjoljoch from the left .
The Indigirka is navigable for smaller ships in the middle reaches around Ust-Nera , above the breakthrough rich in rapids through the Tscherski Mountains. North of the Tscherski Mountains, it is navigable from the confluence of the Moma to the mouth.
Landscape image
The landscape on the Indigirka is dominated by the boreal coniferous forests of the taiga , which merges into the forest tundra and tundra towards the coast .
Story and adventure
A team led by A. Gluschkow drove the Indigirka twice in kayaks along its entire route. In the 1930s, the crews of two canoes drowned in the rapids in the Tscherski Mountains. The route Ust-Nera to Belaja Gora was sailed in 2003 in a folding boat by Alexander and Barbara Krebs-Gehlen.
The river gives its name to a frozen fish salad.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Indigirka in the State Water Register of the Russian Federation (Russian)
- ↑ a b Article Indigirka in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Indigirka at the Indigirskiy gauge - hydrographic data at R-ArcticNET
- ↑ Indigirka at the Vorontsowo gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET