The Bytantay (russian: Бытантай; sah, Бытантай) is a river in the Republic of
Sakha
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in
Russia
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. It is a left hand tributary of the
Yana
Yana may refer to:
Locations
*Yana, Burma, a village in Hkamti Township in Hkamti District in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma
*Yana, India, a village in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India
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, and is long, with a
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...
of .
Course
The river begins in the eastern flank of the
Verkhoyansk Range
The Verkhoyansk Range (russian: Верхоянский хребет, ''Verkhojanskiy Khrebet''; sah, Үөһээ Дьааҥы сис хайата, ''Üöhee Chaangy sis khaĭata'') is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Russia near the settle ...
at an elevation of . It heads roughly northeast with the
Kular Range
The Kular Range (russian: хребет Кулар, ''Khrebet Kular''; sah, Кулар сис, Kular Sis) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Eveno-Bytantaysky National District of the Sa ...
to the northwest and then joins river Yana from the left from its mouth. There are more than two thousand lakes in the basin of the Bytantay.
Бытантай
— ''статья из Большой советской энциклопедии''. 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 ...
The main tributaries of the Bytantay are Billah and Tenki on the right; and Khobol, Achchygy-Sakkyryr, Ulakhan-Sakkyryr and Kulgaga-Suoh on the left. The Ulakhan-Sakkyryr joins the Bytantay a short distance to the east of Batagay-Alyta
Batagay-Alyta (russian: Батагай-Алыта; sah, Баатаҕай Алыыта, ''Baatağay Alııta'', ), also known as Sakkyryr (russian: Саккырыр; sah, Саккырыыр, ''Saqqırıır'', ) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') an ...
.
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 drained into ...
*Yana Plateau
The Yana Plateau ( rus, Янское плоскогорье, sah, Дьааҥы хаптал хайалара) is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.Google Earth
The plateau lies in an uninhabited area ...
* Yana-Oymyakon Highlands§Hydrography
References
Rivers of the Sakha Republic
Verkhoyansk Range
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