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
Yakutia
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in
Russia
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. It flows into the
Russko-Ustyinskaya, a left distributary of the
Indigirka
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History
By the Byoryolyokh more than 8,000 bones from at least 140 woolly mammoths have been found in a single spot, apparently having been swept there by the current.
The northernmost archaeological site of the Paleolithic
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Stone Age
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is located by the river at .
Etymology
The name of the river is based on the Yakut language ''"Börölöökh"'', meaning "teeming with wolves
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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 river flows roughly northeastwards across the Yana-Indigirka Lowland. The length of the Byoryolyokh is . The area of its drainage basin
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is .Chokurdakh
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.Russian State Water Register - Byoryolyokh River (Yelon)
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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'' / ]Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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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.
See also
* List of mammoth specimens
* List of northernmost items
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
Rivers of the Sakha Republic
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