The Elgi (russian: Эльги) is a river in
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 ...
in
Russia
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, a left tributary of the
Indigirka. The
Elgi Plateau is named after the Elgi River.
Inhabited places
Formerly there was a
settlement
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*Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building
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*Settlement (fin ...
called Elginsky on left bank of the Elgi, about upstream from its confluence with the Indigirka. It belonged to the
Oymyakon District and was abolished in 2007.
Course
The Elgi is formed by the confluence of the
Degdega and
Kao rivers. It flows across the
Elgi Plateau in a wide arch, first roughly westwards and then roughly eastwards. After it meets the left bank of the upper Indigirka, about upstream from
Ust-Nera
Ust-Nera ( rus, Усть-Нера, r=; sah, Уус Ньара, translit=Uus Nyara) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Oymyakonsky District in Yakutia, Russia. Located in one of the coldest permanent ...
.
1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet C-6
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The river's drainage basin
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measures .
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 drain ...
* Yana-Oymyakon Highlands§Hydrography
References
Rivers of the Sakha Republic
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