The Byssa (russian: Бысса) is a river in
Selemdzhinsky District
Selemdzhinsky District (russian: Селемджи́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #127-OZ and municipalLaw #25-OZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Amur Oblast, twenty in Amur Oblast, Russia. The area of th ...
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Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast ( rus, Аму́рская о́бласть, r=Amurskaya oblast, p=ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrative ...
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Russia
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. It is the third longest tributary of the
Selemdzha
The Selemdzha () is a river in the Amur Region of Russia. It is the biggest, left tributary of the Zeya. The length of the river is 647 km. The area of its basin 68,600 km².
Course
The Selemdzha has its source where three mountain r ...
, with a length of
[ and with the third in drainage basin area, after the Orlovka. The name of the river originated in the Evenki language.]Byssa
Byssa (russian: Бысса) is a rural locality (a selo) in Norsky Selsoviet of Selemdzhinsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2018.
Geography
Byssa is located on the left bank of the Selemdzha
The Selemdzha () is a ...
and Fevralsk
Fevralsk (russian: Февра́льск) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Selemdzhinsky District of Amur Oblast, Russia, located between the Selemdzha River and its tributary the Byssa, about northeast of Blagoveshchensk, the oblast' ...
villages in the area of its mouth. South of Fevralsk the river is crossed by the Far Eastern Railway
Far Eastern Railway (russian: Дальневосточная железная дорога) is a railway in Russia that crosses Primorsky Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, and Yakutia.
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Course
The Byssa is a left tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...
of the Selemdzha. It has its origin at an elevation of about in the northwestern slopes of the Turan Range
The Turan Range (russian: Хребет Тура̀на) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation. History
The range was forme ...
. The river flows in a roughly southwestern direction with rapids and a winding channel in its upper reaches. After leaving the mountainous area it enters a wide swampy valley where it meander
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s slowly all along its middle and lower course.[Topographic map M-52; M 1: 1,000,00](_blank)
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The main tributaries of the Byssa are the long Iga from the left and the Sinnikan from the right.hot springs
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in the middle basin of the river where the water reaches a temperature of .Быссинский источник термоминеральных вод (Быссинский курорт).
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See also
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
External links
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Rivers of Amur Oblast
Drainage basins of the Sea of Okhotsk