The Omulyakh Bay (russian: Омуляхская губа; sah, Уомуллаах тамах) is a bay of the

East Siberian Sea The East Siberian Sea ( rus, Восто́чно-Сиби́рское мо́ре, r=Vostochno-Sibirskoye more) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape to the north, the coast of Siberia to the south, the New Si ...

in the

Sakha Republic 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 ...

(Yakutia), Russian Federation.

Geography

This bay is located in the shores of the

East Siberian Lowland The East Siberian Lowland ( rus, Восточно-Сибирская низменность), also known as Yana-Kolyma Lowland,Oleg Leonidovič Kryžanovskij, ''A Checklist of the Ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands.'' p. 16 is a vast plai ...

, west of the Sundrun River region and east of the

Yana Bay Yana may refer to: Locations *Yana, Burma, a village in Hkamti Township in Hkamti District in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma *Yana, India, a village in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India * Yana, Nigeria, an administrative ca ...

. Omulyakh Bay is open to the east through a narrow and straight channel and is 115 km in length. Starting from its mouth the bay widens inside, until it reaches a width of . It has a curved inlet at its end. The

Khroma Bay The Khroma Bay (russian: Хромская губа, ''Khromskaya Guba'') is a bay in the East Siberian Sea, part of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) administrative division of the Russian Federation. Owing to is northerly location the bay is cover ...

is very similar to this bay and lies only 40 km south. Both bays share the same mouth. GoogleEarth

Hydrography

The long Kyuenekhtyakh (Кюэнехтях) and the long San-Yuryakh (Сан-Юрях) are the main rivers flowing into the bay. The bay is in an area of wetlands; lakes and marshes dot the whole landscape. Owing to is northerly location the Omullyakh Bay is covered with ice most of the year.

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Location

YakutiaToday.Com - Geography of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
Bays of the Sakha Republic Bays of the East Siberian Sea East Siberian Lowland {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub