The Chulym (russian: Чулым) is a
river in
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Sibe ...
, the
Republic of Khakassia, and
Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast (russian: То́мская о́бласть, ''Tomskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative ce ...
in
Russia
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, a right
tributary of the
Ob.
[Чулым (река, приток Оби)]
Great Soviet Encyclopedia The length of the river is . The area of its
basin is .
The Chulym is formed at the confluence of the rivers
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and
Cherny Iyus
russian: Чёрный Июс, lit=Black Iyus, translit=Cherny Iyus russian: Старой Iюсъ, lit= Staryy Iyus, translit=Old Iyus
, state= Khakassia
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in the
Kuznetsk Alatau
Kuznetsk Alatau (russian: Кузнецкий Алатау) is a mountain range in southern Siberia, Russia. The range rises in the Altai-Sayan region of the South Siberian Mountains, northwest of Mongolia. The Siberian Railway skirts the nort ...
.
[ The Chulym flows into the Ob near Molchanovo. The towns of Nazarovo, ]Achinsk
Achinsk (russian: А́чинск) is a city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Chulym River near its intersection with the Trans-Siberian Railway, west of Krasnoyarsk. It has a population of 109,155 as of the 2010 ...
, and Asino, and the village of Komsomolsk are located on the Chulym. The main tributaries are the Serezh, Uryup, Kiya
Kiya was one of the wives of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Little is known about her, and her actions and roles are poorly documented in the historical record, in contrast to those of Akhenaten's ‘Great royal wife’, Nefertiti. Her unusual n ...
and Yaya from the left and Bolshoy Uluy
Bolshoy Uluy (russian: Большо́й Улу́й) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Bolsheuluysky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental count ...
, Kemchug and Chichkayul from the right.[
]
History
The Swedish explorer Johan Peter Falk
Johan Peter Falk (26 November 1732 – 31 March 1774) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. His first name is sometimes spelled "Johann"; his middle name is sometimes spelled "Pehr"; and his surname is sometimes spelled "Falck". ...
noted 18th-century hunter gatherer
A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local sources, especially edible wild plants but also insects, fungi, ...
s living along the banks of the Chulym River.[K. David Harrison (2007) ''When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge'', p. 70-72, published by Oxford University Press US, , 304 page]
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References
Rivers of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Rivers of Tomsk Oblast
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