The Byoryolyokh (russian: Бёрёлёх,Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ
Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 47 sah, Бөрөлөөх, ''Börölööx'') is a river in

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. It flows into the Russko-Ustyinskaya, a left distributary of the Indigirka.

History

By the Byoryolyokh more than 8,000 bones from at least 140

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s have been found in a single spot, apparently having been swept there by the current. The northernmost archaeological site of the Paleolithic Stone Age is located by the river at .

Etymology

The name of the river is based on the

Yakut language Yakut , also known as Yakutian, Sakha, Saqa or Saxa ( sah, саха тыла), is a Turkic language spoken by around 450,000 native speakers, primarily the ethnic Yakuts and one of the official languages of Sakha (Yakutia), a federal republic ...

''"Börölöökh"'', meaning "teeming with

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Course

The source of the Byoryolyokh is located at the confluence of two small rivers north of the

Polousny Range The Polousny Range ( rus, Полоусный кряж; sah, Полоуснай томтороот) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.Полоусный кряж (Polousny Range) / Great Soviet Encyc ...

. The river flows roughly northeastwards across the

Yana-Indigirka Lowland The Yana-Indigirka Lowland (russian: Яно-Индигирская низменность; sah, Дьааҥы - Индигир намтала) is a large, low alluvial plain located in northern Siberia, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Admini ...

. The length of the Byoryolyokh is . The area of its

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is . The river is also known as "Yelon" (russian: Елонь) in a section of its lower course. It joins the Indigirka from the left at the Russo-Ustinsky Canal, the western arm of the Indigirka River near its mouth, not far from Chokurdakh.Russian State Water Register - Byoryolyokh River (Yelon)
/ref> The main tributaries of the Byoryolyokh are the Wese-Killah on the left; and the Ulakhan-Killah (Tiit), Selgannah and Ary-May on the right.''Бёрёлёёх'' /

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; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017. There are more than nine thousand lakes in the basin of the Byoryolyokh River. It usually floods over its banks in July and August. In winter it freezes to the bottom.

References

Rivers of the Sakha Republic {{Russia-river-stub

History

Etymology

Course

See also

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