The Debin ( rus, Дебин) is a river in the Yagodninsky district of Magadan Oblast,

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. It is a left hand tributary of the Kolyma. Its length is , counting the length of the Archagyl stream at its head, and it has a

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of .Russian State Water Register - Ручьи Дебин (в верховье руч. Арчагыл)
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/ref> Yagodnoye village is located on the left bank of the Debin; the

R504 Kolyma Highway The R504 Kolyma Highway (russian: Федеральная автомобильная дорога «Колыма», ''Federal'naya Avtomobil'naya Doroga «Kolyma»,'' "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road throu ...

crosses the river in its middle course and runs on the northern side of the river, roughly parallel to its lower course until it bends northwards near Debin.Google Maps
/ref> The name of the river is based on the Yakut word ''"daebin"'' (дьэбин), meaning "

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".Leontyev V.V. , Novikova K.A. ''Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR'' / Scientific ed. G. A. Menovschikov ; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institute for Archeology, History and Ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House , 1989 . P. 130 . -

History

Since the 1960s

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deposits have been exploited in the Debin river basin. As a result, there has been much environmental degradation in certain places. Some of the settlements involved in mining operations in the river basin have been abandoned. Only the villages of Burkhala, located near the R504 Highway bridge, and Senokosny, near Yagodnoye have survived, albeit with only a residual population.

Course

The Debin has its sources in the eastern slopes of Mount Spornaya, east of the highest point of the Cherge Range at the eastern end of the

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, where it overlaps with the

Upper Kolyma Highlands The Upper Kolyma Highlands ( rus, Верхнеколымское нагорье) is a highland area in Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The biggest town in the highlands is Susuman. There are large deposits of gold, tin and ...

. There is continuous permafrost in the area. The river heads first in a roughly southeastern direction through a narrow valley. It bends to the east in its lower course, meandering in a

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with lakes. Finally the Debin joins the left bank of the Kolyma upstream from Debin. There is an

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south of the mouth area, with a road connecting it to Debin. Just below the confluence of the Debin, from its mouth, the valley of the Kolyma expands into a floodplain where its channel divides into branches. The Debin is located in a sparsely-populated region of severe cold winters; it usually freezes in early October and stays frozen until May. Its longest tributaries are the long Sukhakhy and the long Dzhelgala.

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Ust-Srednekan hydroelectric power plant
Rivers of Magadan Oblast

History

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