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Kirenga
The Kirenga () is a river in Irkutsk Oblast in Russia. The name originated in an Evenki word. The length of the river is . The area of its basin is . There are many settlements in the river valley. The Baikal Amur Mainline follows and crosses the Kirenga between Magistralny and Ulkan. Course It is a right tributary of the Lena which flows north between the upper Lena and Lake Baikal. The Kirenga begins in the Baikal Mountains west of Lake Baikal, a few dozen kilometres north of the source of the Lena. The Kirenga marks the eastern limit of the Lena-Angara Plateau. The river flows along the Cis-Baikal Depression, limited by the Akitkan Range to the east. Finally it joins the Lena at the town of Kirensk. The Kirenga is fed mainly by rain. It freezes up in late October to early November and stays under the ice until late April to May. Tributaries Its main tributaries are the Ulkan, Minya, Okunayka and Kutima from the right, as well as the Khanda from the left. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rivers Of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European and an Asian part. The dividing line is generally considered to be the Ural Mountains. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea. The Asian part is drained into the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are Volga (which is the longest river in Europe), Pechora, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dnieper and the Western Dvina. In Asia, important rivers are the Ob, the Irtysh, the Yenisei, the Angara, the Lena, the Amur, the Yana, the Indigirka, and the Kolyma. In the list below, the rivers are grouped by the seas or oceans into which they flow. Rivers that flow into other rivers are ordered by the proximity of their point of confluence to the mouth of the main river, i.e., the lower in the list, the more upstream. There is an alphabetical list of rivers at the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirensk
Kirensk ( rus, Киренск, p=ˈkʲirʲɪnsk) is a town and the administrative center of Kirensky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kirenga and Lena Rivers, north of Irkutsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: Geography The town is located in the Lena-Angara Plateau.Google Earth History It was founded in 1630 by the Cossacks under Vasily Bugor as a winter settlement called Nikolsky pogost. Along with Ust-Kut, it was one of the two main portages between the Yenisei and Lena basins. In the 1630s, Yerofey Khabarov ran a salt works here. In 1665, it was renamed Kirensky Ostrog. In 1775, it was granted town status. In the 19th century, a large number of political prisoners were forcibly resettled here, among whom was Józef Piłsudski. Under Stalin there was a GULAG transit camp. In 1991, over eighty bodies were found buried in the basement of the former NKVD building. All were said to have been killed on a single day in 1938 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena (river)
The Lena (russian: Ле́на, ; evn, Елюенэ, ''Eljune''; sah, Өлүөнэ, ''Ölüöne''; bua, Зүлхэ, ''Zülkhe''; mn, Зүлгэ, ''Zülge'') is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Yenisey). Permafrost underlies most of the catchment, 77% of which is continuous. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The Lena is the eleventh-longest river in the world, and the longest river entirely within Russia. Course Originating at an elevation of at its source in the Baikal Mountains south of the Central Siberian Plateau, west of Lake Baikal, the Lena flows northeast across the Lena-Angara Plateau, being joined by the Kirenga, Vitim and Olyokma. From Yakutsk it enters the Central Yakutian Lowland and flows north until joined by its right-hand tributary the Aldan and its most important left-hand tributary, the Vilyuy. After that, it bends westward and northward, flowing between the K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akitkan Range
The Akitkan Range (russian: хребет Акиткан; zh, 阿基特坎山) is a mountain range in Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia, Russian Federation.Google Earth The Paleoproterozoic Akitkan Orogen is named after the range. History Between 1855 and 1858 Ivan Kryzhin (d. 1884) took part in the Eastern Siberian expedition led by Russian astronomer and traveler Ludwig Schwarz. In 1857 he mapped the Kirenga River and, while exploring its right tributary, the Cherepanikha, Kryzhin discovered the formerly unknown Akitkan Range rising above the area of its source. The North Baikal Highlands, where the range rises, were explored between 1909 and 1911 by Russian geologist Pavel Preobrazhensky (1874 - 1944). He surveyed the river valley of the Chechuy, a right tributary of the Lena with its sources in the Akitkan. Overcoming numerous difficulties, Preobrazhensky managed to map for the first time a stretch of the Akitkan Range. Geography The Akitkan stretches roughly northwards for o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magistralny
Magistralny (russian: Магистральный) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Kazachinsko-Lensky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Population: Geography Magistralny is located by the Kirenga river. It lies on the route of the Ust-Kut - Severobaikalsk Severobaikalsk (russian: Северобайка́льск; bua, Хойто-Байгал, ''Khoito-Baigal'', mn, Хойдбайгал, ''Khoidbaigal'') is a town in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the northern end of Lake Baikal at t ... highway and the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Google Earth References External links * Urban-type settlements in Irkutsk Oblast {{IrkutskOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena-Angara Plateau
The Lena-Angara Plateau ( rus, Лено-Ангарское плато), is a plateau in Siberia. Administratively it is in the Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation. The plateau is named after the Lena and Angara rivers, of which it forms the watershed. Rivers on the plateau flow mostly in a south–north direction.Google Earth The plateau has rich mining areas where iron and copper ores are extracted, as well as rock-salt, talc and mica. The Lena-Angara Plateau is mostly sparsely populated. The biggest settlements are Ust-Kut, Kirensk, Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky, as well as the villages of Zhigalovo and Kachug. The Bratsk Reservoir is located in the plateau area. Geography The Lena-Angara Plateau rises in the middle part of Irkutsk Oblast, between the Angara River to the west and the Kirenga River, a tributary of the Lena, to the east. To the northwest it is bound by the Angara Range, to the south by the Angara valley, to the southeast by the Primorsky Range, and to the east by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya entsiklopediya'' (or '' Great Russian Encyclopedia'') in an updated and revised form. The GSE claimed to be "the first Marxist–Leninist general-purpose encyclopedia". Origins The idea of the ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' emerged in 1923 on the initiative of Otto Schmidt, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In early 1924 Schmidt worked with a group which included Mikhail Pokrovsky, (rector of the Institute of Red Professors), Nikolai Meshcheryakov (Former head of the Glavit, the State Administration of Publishing Affairs), Valery Bryusov (poet), Veniamin Kagan (mathematician) and Konstantin Kuzminsky to draw up a proposal which was agreed to in April 1924. Also involved was Anatoly Lunacharsky, People's Commissar of Education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khanda (Kirenga)
Khanda may refer to: Places * Khanda, Sonipat, a very big and historical village in Sonipat district of Haryana, India * Khanda, Jind, a village in Jind district of Haryana, India * Khanda Kheri, a village in Hansi Tehsil of Hisar district of Haryana, India * Khanda, Agra, a village in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh, India * Khanda (river), Yakutia, Russia Other uses * Khanda (Sikh symbol) * Khanda (sword) See also * Khandan (other) Khandan may refer to: * Khandan Rural District, rural district in Iran * Khandaan (1942 film) (pre-Partition Punjabi Urdu film) * Khandan (1965 film) (Hindi film) * Khandaan (1979 film), an Indian Hindi-language drama film * Khandaan (TV serie ... * Kandha (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minya (river)
(Al-) Minya may refer to: Places and jurisdictions * Minya Governorate in Egypt * Minya, Egypt, capital city of the Minya Governorate; Ancient Egyptian name Men'at Khufu, meaning the nursing city of Khufu * The Coptic Catholic Eparchy of Minya * Khirbat al-Minya, the remains of an Umayyad ''qasr'' (fortified palace) on the Sea of Galilee Other * Minya (Xena), a character from the TV series ''Xena: Warrior Princess'' * Minilla, the titular son of the film ''Son of Godzilla'', referred to as "Minya" in dubbed English versions Similar names ;Places (Mina, Menea) * El Mina, Lebanon * El Mina, Mauritania * El Golea El Menia () is an oasis town and commune, and capital of El Ménia District, in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. The former name is El Goléa (); together in Arabic, the two names mean ''Impregnable Castle''. According to the 2008 census it has a ... (Arabic: القلعة) is an oasis town and commune in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. The official name is "El Mene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulkan (river)
Ulkan (russian: Улькан) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Kazachinsko-Lensky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig .... Population: References Urban-type settlements in Irkutsk Oblast {{IrkutskOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
