The Maya (russian: Мая) is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

Khabarovsk Krai Khabarovsk Krai ( rus, Хабаровский край, r=Khabarovsky kray, p=xɐˈbarəfskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Russian Far East and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District ...

and

Sakha 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 Eas ...

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. It 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 drainage ...

of the

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of the

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 � ...

basin. The length of the river is . The area of its basin . The Maya freezes up in late October and stays under the ice until May. The

Yudoma The Yudoma (russian: Юдома) is a river in eastern Siberia in the Yudoma-Maya Highlands near the Okhotsk Coast. It joins the Maya which joins the Aldan which joins the Lena which flows into the Arctic Ocean. Its northern headwaters are in t ...

is one of the biggest tributaries of the Maya. The river is navigable up to upstream from its mouth. The

Yudoma-Maya Highlands The Yudoma-Maya Highlands ( rus, Юдомо-Майское нагорье, r=Yudomo-Maiskoye Nagorye; sah, Юдома-Маайа хаптал хайалаах сиринэн ) are a mountainous area in the Sakha Republic and Khabarovsk Krai, Far ...

are located in the basin of the Maya.Юдомо-Майское нагорье
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, 2004—2017. The Maya was part of the river route from Yakutsk to the

Okhotsk Coast The Okhotsk Coast is an informal name for the northwest coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. Although it was never an administrative unit there is some reason to treat it as a distinct region. Here in 1639 the Russians first reached the Pacific Ocean. ...

. Its course is approximately "V"-shaped. The upper Maya runs about southwest parallel to the coast between the

Dzhugdzhur Mountains The Dzhugdzhur Mountains (russian: Джугджу́р) or Jugjur Mountains, meaning 'big bulge' in Evenki, are a mountain range along the western shores of the Sea of Okhotsk in the far east of Siberia. The mountains are quite deserted, the ...

and the Yudoma Plateau. About from its source the Mati River comes in from the south. From the Mati either the Lama Portage or the Alanchak Portage led to the Ulya and the coast. Near the southernmost point was the settlement of Nelkan from which a track led over the mountains to Ayan. The Maya flows west for perhaps and receives the Maimakan River from the southwest. From here the river flows basically north about , receives the

from the east and joins the

at Ust-Maya. From Ust-Maya there was a horse-track to Yakutsk. Eastbound boats that reached Ust-Maya from the Lena were replaced by smaller boats to continue up the Maya.

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