Norsk (russian: Норск) is a

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(a '' selo'') in

Selemdzhinsky District Selemdzhinsky District (russian: Селемджи́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #127-OZ and municipalLaw #25-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty in Amur Oblast, Russia. The area of the district is . Its administrative cente ...

Amur Oblast Amur Oblast ( rus, Аму́рская о́бласть, r=Amurskaya oblast, p=ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrative ...

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Geography

Norsk is located on the left bank of the

Selemdzha River The Selemdzha () is a river in the Amur Oblast, Amur Region of Russia. It is the biggest, left tributary of the Zeya (river), Zeya. The length of the river is 647 km. The area of its basin 68,600 km². Course The Selemdzha has its sou ...

, downstream from the mouth of the

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Climate

Norsk has a monsoon-influenced

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...

(

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

''Dwb''), with dry, bitterly cold winters and warm, wet summers.

References

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