The Nadym (russian: Нады́м) is a

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Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO; russian: Яма́ло-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг (ЯНАО), ; yrk, Ямалы-Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ) or Yamalia (russian: Ямалия) is a fed ...

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. The length of the Nadym is . The area of its basin is . It is known for having a very rickety

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for summer use while winter roads go over the ice. A new fixed bridge for combined road and rail use is to be finished by the end of 2015.

Course

The river originates in Lake Numto, in the

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and flows into the

Kara Sea The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. ...

through the

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. Its mouth is very near to the mouth of the Ob. It freezes up in October and stays under the ice until late May. The

Levaya Khetta The Levaya Khetta (russian: Левая Хетта) is a river in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Nadym.Nadym Nadym (russian: Нады́м, Selkup: Ня́рэм, Nấrém) is a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the river Nadym. The population has fluctuated: Etymology There are three several translations from the Nenets lang ...

is located on the river Nadym.

References

Rivers of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Drainage basins of the Kara Sea {{Russia-river-stub