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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 ...

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Lena Lena or LENA may refer to: Places * Léna Department, a department of Houet Province in Burkina Faso * Lena, Manitoba, an unincorporated community located in Killarney-Turtle Mountain municipality in Manitoba, Canada * Lena, Norway, a village in ...

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Yakutia Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far E ...

, Russia The Dyanyshka (russian: Дянышка; sah, Дээнискэ, ''Deeniske''), also known as Kobycha (russian: Кобыча), is a river in the Kobyaysky District of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia),

. It is the 28th longest tributary of the

, with a length of or according to other sources, and a drainage basin area of . There are no settlements in the area of the Dyanyshka. The river is located in the Ust-Vilyui Natural Park area. Whitefish,

lenok Lenoks, otherwise known as Asiatic trout or Manchurian trout,James Card: Fly fishing in South Korea.' Retrieved 22 June 2015. are salmonid fish of the genus ''Brachymystax'', native to rivers and lakes in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, wider Siberia (incl ...

pike Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to: Fish * Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus'' * Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes * ''Esox'', genus of ...

and

taimen Siberian taimen (''Hucho taimen''), also known as the common taimen (russian: Обыкнове́нный тайме́нь, Obyknovénnyĭ taĭménʹ), Siberian giant trout or Siberian salmon, is a species of salmon-like ray-finned fish from the ...

, among other species, are abundant in the waters of the river. In the International scale of river difficulty the Dyanyshka is a Class II - IV destination for

rafting Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water. This is often done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water. Dealing with risk is often a ...

and kayaking.Water of Russia - Дянышка
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Course

The Dyanyshka is a right

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 drai ...

of the Lena and flows across mountainous terrain all along its upper course. It forms at an altitude of roughly at the confluence of rivers Dektende and Birandya, the latter having its source in the Echysky Massif,Nature.ykt
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at the southern end of the Orulgan Range. The river flows roughly southwestwards all along its course cutting across the Selenchan Range and flanking the northwestern end of the Tagindzhin, Muosuchan and Bygyn ranges through a wide valley in its middle course with the northern end of the Kuturgin Range rising not far off its left bank. The river

meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ba ...

s and splits in slow-flowing arms already from its mouth. In its last stretch it flows across a flat area at the edge of the

Central Yakutian Lowland The Central Yakutian LowlandJohn Kimble (ed.), ''Cryosols: Permafrost-Affected Soils'' or Central Yakutian Lowlands (russian: Центральноякутская равнина; sah, Саха сирин ортоку намтала), also known as ...

where there are many small lakes and marshes. Finally the Dyanyshka joins the right bank of the Lena from its mouth. The river freezes yearly in mid-October and opens in late May or early June. It freezes to the bottom in its upper course. The river basin has 40

ice field An ice field (also spelled icefield) is a mass of interconnected valley glaciers (also called mountain glaciers or alpine glaciers) on a mountain mass with protruding rock ridges or summits. They are often found in the colder climates and highe ...

s with a total area of approximately . River Dyanyshka has 54 tributaries with a length of more than 10 km. Its main tributary is the long Sagandzha (Саганджа), also known as Byutei-Yurekh (Бютэй-Юрэх), joining it from the left below the northern flank of the Tagindzhin Range.1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet C-6
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Ust-Vilyui Natural Park

Geography - Yakutia Organized
Rivers of the Sakha Republic Verkhoyansk Range Central Yakutian Lowland {{Russia-river-stub

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