The Alazeya ( rus, Алазея, r=; sah, Алаһыай, translit=Alahıay) is a river in the northeastern part of
Yakutia
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far E ...
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Russia
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which flows into the Arctic between the basins of the larger
Indigirka to the west and the
Kolyma to the east.
Mount
Kisilyakh-Tas is a notable
kigilyakh
Kigilyakh or kisiliyakh ( rus, кигиляхи; sah, киһилээх, meaning "stone person") are tall, pillar-like natural rock formations looking like tall monoliths standing more or less isolated. Usually they are composed of granite or ...
site on the right bank of the Alazeya River at .
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Geography
The river is long. The area of its basin is .[Russian State Water Register - Alazeya River](_blank)
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The Alazeya is formed at the confluence of the Nelkan and Kadylchan rivers in the slopes of the Alazeya Plateau. It crosses roughly northwards through the tundra meandering among the flat, marshy areas of the Kolyma Lowland, part of the greater East Siberian Lowland. Finally the Alazeya drains into the Kolyma Bay
The Kolyma Bay (russian: Колымская Губа; Kolymskaya Guba) is one of the main gulfs of the East Siberian Sea.
The bay gets its name from the Kolyma Lowlands, whose coastline forms the whole eastern half of this bay. The Kolyma Lowlan ...
of the East Siberian Sea, close to Logashkino
Logashkino (russian: Лога́шкино) was a settlement in Nizhnekolymsky Ulus of the Sakha Republic, Russia, which was abolished in 1998.Resolution #443 of September 29, 1998 ''On Exclusion of Inhabited Localities from the Records of ...
. The river freezes in late September through early October and stays icebound until late May through early June. There are more than 24,000 lakes in its basin.[ Google Earth][Алазея]
in the 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 e ...
.
Tributaries
The biggest tributaries of the Alazeya are the long Rassokha and long Buor-Yuryakh from the left, as well as the long Sloboda River and the long Buor-Yuryakh from the right.
History
Dmitrii Zyryan was the first Russian to reach the Alazeya in 1641,
See also
*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 drain ...
References
Rivers of the Sakha Republic
East Siberian Lowland
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