Anadyrskiy Liman (russian: Анадырский Лиман) or Anadyr Estuary is an estuary on the

Gulf of Anadyr The Gulf of Anadyr, or Anadyr Bay (russian: Анадырский залив), is a large bay on the Bering Sea in far northeast Siberia. It has a total surface area of Location The bay is roughly rectangular and opens to the southeast. The corn ...

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Geography

It is called a liman because it is separated from the Gulf of Anadyr by the

Russkaya Koshka Russkaya Koshka (Russian: Русская Кошка) is a spit that divides the Anadyr Estuary from the Gulf of Anadyr. The name literally translates as "the Russian cat"; but in fact ''koshka'' is the dialectal word for "sand spit A spit or ...

spit in the north and another spit (Geka Point) in the south. The channel into the Gulf of Anadyr through the bar is in the east. The

Anadyr Lowlands The Anadyr Lowlands (russian: Ана́дырская ни́зменность) 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 m ...

are located to the west.

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Anadyrskiy Liman is divided into three parts. The outer bay receives the

Tretya River The Tretya Rechka (russian: Третья речка, literal translation: "third river") is a stream in the Beringovsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is long. It drains part of the southern Anadyr Lowlands (very flat with wet ...

(its mouth is the notch on the south shore). The southern part of the outer bay is shallow. The inner bay is called

Onemen Bay Onemen Bay (russian: Залив Онемен, ''Zaliv Onmen''; ckt, Онмын, ''Onmyn'') is a bay of the Gulf of Anadyr, Bering Sea. Administratively it belongs to the Anadyrsky District of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. There are no ...

and receives 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 a major tributary of Lak ...

through a narrow bay on the southwest. They are separated by a promontory, with the town of Anadyr at its tip. North of the promontory is a series of lakes which form the mouth of the

Kanchalan River The Kanchalan (Russian: Канчалан) is a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Far East. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . History The Kanchalan and its tributaries belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative regi ...

. The

Anadyr River The Anadyr (russian: Ана́дырь; Yukaghir: Онандырь; ckt, Йъаайваам) is a river in the far northeast of Siberia which flows into the Gulf of Anadyr of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous ...

enters the inner bay from the west. The lake south of the Anadyr in this image is Lake Krasnoye.United States Hydrographic Office (1909)
Asiatic pilot, Volume 1.
Issues 122-126; Issue 162 of H.O. pub. Gov. Printing Off., Washington. pp 50-51.

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Geonames Estuaries of Russia Bodies of water of the Bering Sea Bodies of water of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug {{ChukotkaAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub