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Tompo
The Tompo (russian: Томпо) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan, part of the Lena basin. River Tompo gives its name to the Tompo District. It flows across desolate regions, Topolinoye being the only inhabited place in the long course of the river.Google Earth The Tompo is not navigable. The area of the river's drainage basin is . Course The Tompo originates in the southern slopes of the Elgi Plateau. For about , the river displays the characteristics of a typical mountain river, flowing within a deep and narrow valley bound by steep slopes. In its uppermost course the Tompo runs roughly northward along the northern side of the Suntar-Khayata mountains; after roughly it turns and follows a generally westward direction for about through the southern part of the Elgi Plateau. Downstream from the mouth of the Delinya, its 2nd largest tributary, which flows from the central part of the Yana-Oymyakon Highlands, the Tompo bends SSE i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tompo District
Tomponsky District (russian: Томпонский улу́с; sah, Томпо улууһа, ''Tompo uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the east of the republic and borders with Momsky District in the northeast, Oymyakonsky District in the east, Ust-Maysky District in the southeast, Tattinsky District in the southwest, Ust-Aldansky and Kobyaysky Districts in the west, and with Verkhoyansky District in the north and northwest. The area of the district is .Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic Its administrative center is the urban locality (a settlement) of Khandyga. Population: 15,275 ( 2002 Census); The population of Khandyga accounts for 47.1% of the district's total population. Geography The landscape of the district is mostly mountainous. Its main rivers include the Aldan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topolinoye
Topolinoye (russian: Тополиное) is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Tomponsky National Rural Okrug of the Tompo District in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located on the left bank of the Tompo River,Google Earth from Khandyga Khandyga (russian: Хандыга; sah, Хаандыга) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Tomponsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, northeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As o ..., the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 915,This figure is given for Tomponsky National Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of Tomponsky Municipal District. According to Law #173-Z 353-III, Topolinoye is the only inhabited locality on the territory of this municipal formation. of whom 458 were male and 457 female, up from 880 as recorded during the 2002 Census.''Registry of the Administra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megino-Aldan
Megino-Aldan (russian: Мегино-Алдан; sah, Мэҥэ Алдан, ''Meŋe Aldan'') is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Megino-Aldansky Rural Okrug of Tomponsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Khandyga, the administrative center of the district.''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'' Its population as of the 2010 Census was 1,020,This figure is given for Megino-Aldansky Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of Tomponsky Municipal District. According to Law #173-Z 353-III, Megino-Aldan is the only inhabited locality on the territory of this municipal formation. down from 1,075 recorded during the 2002 Census. It is located by the Aldan, opposite the mouth of the Tompo The Tompo (russian: Томпо) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan, part of the Lena basin. River Tompo gives its name to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skalisty Range
The Skalisty Range (russian: Скалистый хребет; sah, Скалистай) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia, part of the East Siberian System. Administratively the mountain chain belongs to the Sakha Republic. The area of the range is remote and desolate. The R504 Kolyma Highway passes through the northern part of the range. History The Skalisty Range, meaning "rocky" owing to numerous pointed crags of naked rock crowning the range, was relatively unknown until 1934. It was first surveyed by an expedition sent by the government of the Soviet Union led by geologist Yuri Bilibin (1901—1952) together with mining engineer Evgeny Bobin (1897—1941). Though located near the southern end of the Verkhoyansk Range, this remote mountain area had formerly not been considered part of it by geographers, along with the other ranges south and southeast of the course of the Aldan River and the Tompo. After conducting the first topographic survey of the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baray (river)
The Baray (russian: Барайы; sah, Барайы, ''Barayı'') is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan, part of the Lena basin. The Baray has a length of and a drainage basin area of . There are no settlements in the area of the river. The nearest inhabited places are Udarnik, Krest-Khaldzhay and Ary-Tolon of Tompo District to the east of the river's mouth.Google Earth Course The Baray originates in the southwestern Verkhoyansk Range, near the source of the Nelgese and not far west of the Khunkhadin Range. In the upper section of its course the river flows across mountainous terrain, heading roughly southwards and flanking the eastern end of the Sordogin Range. After leaving the mountainous area the Baray turns slightly and flows in a roughly SW direction across a floodplain dotted with about 130 lakes. Finally the Baray meets the right bank of the Aldan River in a vast swampy area where it makes a sharp westward bend, a little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulakhan-Bom
The Ulakhan-Bom (russian: Улахан-Бом; sah, Улахан Бом, meaning "Big Obstacle") is a range of mountains in far Russian Far East, North-eastern Russia, a southern prolongation of the Verkhoyansk Range, part of the East Siberian System. Administratively the mountain chain belongs to the Sakha Republic. The urban locality of Solnechny, Sakha Republic, Solnechny is located near the slopes of the range, by the Allakh-Yun River. Geography The Ulakhan-Bom stretches roughly from north to south for about to the west of the Sette-Daban, forming a group of three parallel ranges, together with the Skalisty Range further to the east. It is bound in the north by the Tompo, Tompo River, which separates it from the Verkhoyansk Range proper. To the west it is bound by the wide Aldan River valley and to the south by the Yudoma River. The Tyry river cuts across the northern section of the Ulakhan-Bom. The Khanda (river), Khanda river cuts across the range further south. The small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elgi Plateau
The Elgi Plateau ( rus, Эльгинское плоскогорье;Soviet General Topographic Maps P-54-V,VI sah, Эльгэ хаптал хайалаах сир) is a plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russian Federation. The area is named after the Elgi River, a left tributary of the Indigirka. Formerly there was the Elginsky urban-type settlement by the left bank of river Elgi. It belonged to the Oymyakon District and was abolished in 2007. Geography The Elgi Plateau covers the central Yana-Oymyakon Highlands, in the upper Elgi, Tompo and Delinya River basins. The plateau is bound by the Verkhoyansk Range to the west and the Chersky Range to the northeast, the Yana Plateau to the northwest, the Suntar-Khayata Range to the southwest and the Oymyakon Plateau to the southeast.Geographical Atlas of Russia. - Federal Agency for Geodesy and Cartography , AST, 2010. - pp. 118-119 The average height of the plateau surface is between and . Dome-sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldan River
The Aldan (russian: Алдан) is the second-longest, right tributary of the Lena in the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia.Алдан (река в Якут. АССР) The river is long, of which around is navigable. It has a drainage basin of . The river was part of the River Route to . In 1639 |
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] |
Sette-Daban
The Sette-Daban (russian: Сетте-Дабан, sah, Сэттэ Дабаан) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range belongs partly to the Sakha Republic and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation. The area of the Sette-Daban is largely uninhabited. The R504 Kolyma Highway passes through the northern part of the range. The climate prevailing in the Sette-Daban is continental and severe. The average air temperature in January is a chilly . The average temperature in the river valleys may reach a maximum of in July. History In 1829, German physicist Georg Adolf Erman during a round-the-world (1828-1830) journey reported the existence of "Seven Ranges" (Sette Daban) between 135° and 140° E in the area of one of the upper tributaries of the Yudoma. The range was surveyed in 1934 by geologist Yuri Bilibin (1901—1952) together with mining engineer Evgeny Bobin (1897—1941) in the course of an expedition sent by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verkhoyansk Range
The Verkhoyansk Range (russian: Верхоянский хребет, ''Verkhojanskiy Khrebet''; sah, Үөһээ Дьааҥы сис хайата, ''Üöhee Chaangy sis khaĭata'') is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Russia near the settlement of Verkhoyansk, well-known for its frigid climate. It is part of the East Siberian Mountains. The range lies just west of the boundary of the Eurasian and the North American tectonic plates. The mountains were formed by folding, and represent an anticline. The Verkhoyansk Range was covered by glaciers during the Last Glacial Period and the mountains in the northern section, such as the Orulgan Range, display a typical Alpine relief. There are coal, silver, lead, tin and zinc deposits in the mountains. Geography Rising from the shores of the Buor-Khaya Gulf in the north, it runs southwards spanning roughly 1000 km (600 mi.) across Yakutia, east of the Central Yakutian Lowland, and west of the Chersky Range, reaching the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yana-Oymyakon Highlands
The Yana-Oymyakon Highlands ( rus, Яно-Оймяконское нагорье; sah, Дьааҥы хаптал хайалара), also known as Oymyakon Highlands ( rus, Оймяконское нагорье),Soviet General Topographic Maps P-54-V,VI are a mountainous area in the Sakha Republic, Khabarovsk Krai and Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The area is named after the main features of the highlands. Kigilyakhs are found in some places of the plateaus. These are rock formations that are valued in Yakut culture. Geography The Yana-Oymyakon Highlands are a mountain region of the East Siberian System located between the southern reaches of the Verkhoyansk Range to the west, the Suntar-Khayata Range to the southwest and the Chersky mountain range to the northeast. The main highland features are the vast Yana Plateau in the northwest, the Elgi Plateau in the middle and the Oymyakon Plateau in the southeast. The highlands include the Kuydusun and Agalk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
