The Chondon ( rus, Чондон; sah, Чондоон) is a river in
Ust-Yansky District
Ust-Yansky District (russian: Усть-Я́нский улу́с; sah, Усуйаана улууһа, ''Usuyaana uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), o ...
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Sakha Republic
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(Yakutia),
Russia
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. It is long, with a
drainage basin
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of .
The Chondon
mammoth
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was discovered in 2013 in the Chondon basin, at the feet of the
Polousny Range, 66 km south-west of the village of
Tumat
Tumat (russian: Тумат; sah, Тумат) is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited settlement and the administrative center of Tumatsky National Rural Okrug of Ust-Yansky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Depu ...
. It had died at the age of 47 to 50 years.
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Course
The river begins in the northern slopes of the Selennyakh Range
The Selennyakh Range (russian: Селенняхский хребет, ''Selennyakhsky Khrebet''; sah, Силээннээх) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Sakha Republic of the Russ ...
at an elevation of . It flows roughly northwards west of the Yana River across the Yana-Indigirka Lowland meander
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ing strongly among marshy areas and lakes. In its lower course it flows parallel to the Sellyakh
The Sellyakh (russian: Сыалах or Сельлях; sah, Сиэллээх) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It has a length of —counting the length of the Ilin-Sellyakh (Илин-Сыалаах) at its head— and a drain ...
in the east.[''Chondon'' // ]Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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, in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-197 Yarok Island lies across its mouth, in the Chondon Bay, by the Yana Bay
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
* Yana, Nigeria, an administrative ca ...
of the Laptev Sea.Google Earth
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Tributaries
The main tributaries of the Chondon are the long Buor-Yuryakh
The Buor-Yuryakh (russian: Буор-Юрях; sah, Буор-Үрэх) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is the second largest tributary of the Alazeya. The river has a length of and a drainage basin area of .
The Buor-Yury ...
, with its source in the Kyundyulyun, from the left, as well as the long Ygaanna (Ыгаанньа), the long Dodomo and the long Nuchcha
The Nuchcha or Nuuchcha (russian: Нучча; sah, Нуучча) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is the longest tributary of the Chondon. The river has a length of and a drainage basin area of .
The Nuchcha flows north ...
(Нучча) from the right.
Fauna
Among the fish species found in the river, muksun, nelma, omul
The omul, ''Coregonus migratorius'', also known as Baikal omul (russian: байкальский омуль), is a whitefish species of the salmon family endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. It is considered a delicacy and is the object of ...
and vendace deserve mention.Water of Russia - Чондон
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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 ...
References
Rivers of the Sakha Republic
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