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Timpton Тимптон |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | RU : 18030600212117300003783 | |
| location | Sakha Republic (Yakutia) ( Russia ) | |
| River system | Lena | |
| Drain over | Aldan → Lena → Arctic Ocean | |
| source |
Stanowoy Mountains north of Tynda 56 ° 0 ′ 46 ″ N , 124 ° 23 ′ 52 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 1200 m | |
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Aldan southeast of Tommot Coordinates: 58 ° 44 '2 " N , 127 ° 10' 37" E 58 ° 44 '2 " N , 127 ° 10' 37" E |
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| Mouth height | 255 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 945 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 1.5 ‰ | |
| length | 644 km | |
| Catchment area | 44,400 km² | |
| Discharge at the Ust-Timpton A Eo gauge : 43,700 km² Location: 20 km above the estuary |
MQ 1952/1999 Mq 1952/1999 |
532 m³ / s 12.2 l / (s km²) |
| Left tributaries | Ijengra , Gorbyllach , Tschulman , Chatymi , Bolshoi Yllymach | |
| Right tributaries | Ulachan-Mjoljomkjon , Achchygyj-Mjoljomkjon , Amandschak , Nelgjuu , Seimdje , Idschek , Deltulach | |
| Small towns | Nagorny | |
| Navigable | Lower course | |
 Location of Timpton (Тимптон) in the catchment area of the Aldan |
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The Timpton ( Russian Тимптон ; Yakut Төмтөөн , Tömtöön ) is a 644 km long right tributary of the Aldan in Eastern Siberia ( Russia , Asia ).
course
The Timpton rises to about 1,200 meters on the main ridge of a height of about in this area 1500 m reach Stanowoigebirges . The source is located in the south of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) not far from the border with Amur Oblast , in which the city of Tynda is located a good 100 km south on the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM). First the Timpton flows in an easterly direction, meandering through a wide, swampy valley north of the Stanowoi main ridge and then turns north. Up to its mouth, the Timpton then flows in a north to north-easterly direction in wide arches through the Aldan highlands . On about 300 kilometers of its course it has the character of a mountain river with a narrow, sometimes gorge-like valley and a multitude of rapids . It finally flows into the Lena tributary, Aldan, about 60 kilometers southeast of the city of Tommot . Near the mouth, the Timpton is about 250 meters wide and 2.5 meters deep; its flow velocity there is 1.2 m / s.
The most important tributaries are Ulachan-Mjoljomkjon (length 100 km), Achchygyj-Mjoljomkjon (95 km), Anamjak (102 km; also Anamdjak ), Nelgjuu (length 164 km), Seimdsche (142 km; Seimdje ), Idschek (102 km; Idek ) and Dscheltulach (152 km; Deltulach ) from the right and Ijengra (148 km), Gorbyllach (98 km), Tschulman (166 km), Chatymi (218 km) and Bolshoi Yllymach (150 km; Großer Yllymach ) from the left. In the catchment area there are more 1,300 lakes, predominantly in the area of the headwaters of the Timpton and its tributaries near the Stanovoi main ridge.
Hydrology
The catchment area of the Timpton covers 44,400 km². The river freezes over from mid-October to the first half of May, in sections in the upper reaches to the bottom. This is followed by a summer flood lasting until September with a maximum in May (upper course) to June (lower course). At the confluence with the Aldan, the average flow rate of the Timpton (532 m³ / s) corresponds roughly to that of the Aldan (526 m³ / s near Tommot, about 60 km upstream; after that, the Aldan flows into a series of small rivers up to the confluence of the Timpton ).
| level | Distance to the mouth (km) |
Mean flow rate (m³ / s) | ||
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| year | Minimum (March) |
Maximum (May / June) |
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| Ust-Timpton | 20th | 532 | 7.1 | 1765 |
| Ust-Barylas | 337 | 184 | 3.9 | 541 |
| Nagorny | 595 | 9.4 | 0 | 24.1 |
Use and infrastructure
The lower course of the Timpton is partially navigable, but is not considered an inland waterway.
The area through which it flows is in the southern part of the administration of the city of Neryungri . There, with the urban-type settlement Nagorny , where the Amur-Yakut Magistrale and the M56 trunk road that follows it cross the Timpton, is also the only village directly on the river. In 2009 the settlement only had 96 inhabitants; In 1979, during the construction of the railway, there were still 3,184. In particular on the upper reaches of the river, below today's Nagorny, a number of gold deposits have been discovered and exploited since the beginning of the 20th century . In the further course of the Timpton flows a few to several dozen kilometers off (east) some of the larger places of the southern Republic of Sakha, including Nerjungri and Tschulman , which lie on its left tributaries. From the middle reaches the Ulus ( Rajon ) Aldan is crossed.
Already in the Soviet period there were plans to build a cascade of two or three dams with hydroelectric power stations on Timpton. According to the current status (2010), the preliminary project work for the Kankunskaja hydropower plant (Kankunskaja GES) and the Lower Timpton hydropower plant (Nizhne-Timptonskaja GES) are under the direction of Yuzhno-Jakutskaja GEK (South Yakutian Hydroenergetic Complex) , a wholly owned subsidiary by RusHydro . First of all, the construction of the Kankunskaja hydropower plant with an output of 1,300 megawatts is to be tackled.
As long as the power plant plans are not implemented, the Timpton is one of the most popular destinations for longer canoe trips over its entire length due to the good accessibility of the upper reaches, the middle reaches near Tschulman and the Aldan near the Timpton estuary (via Tommot) by rail and road in the Republic of Sakha. Because of the rapids, navigating the river was classified in the second highest Russian difficulty category V for canoes (according to the international whitewater difficulty scale , approximately IV) and IV for rubber boats . The Timpton Valley is one of the recreational areas for the residents of the mining and industrial area around Neryungri.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article Timpton in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ a b Timpton in the State Water Register of the Russian Federation (Russian)
- ↑ a b Timpton at the Ust-Timpton gauge - hydrographic data at R-ArcticNET
- ↑ a b timepiece . In: Aleksandr Gluškov: 100 rek Jakutii . Poligrafist, Jakutsk 1996 ( 100 rivers of Yakutia ; Russian).
- ↑ Timpton ( Memento from April 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the Geographical Handbook of Yakutia (website of the Ministry of Nature Conservation of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); Russian)
- ↑ Aldan at the Tommot gauge - hydrographic data at R-ArcticNET
- ↑ Timepiece at the Ust-Barylas gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET
- ↑ Timpton at the Nagorny gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET
- ↑ Press release ( memento of November 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) from RusHydro of March 10, 2010 (Russian)