The Pur (russian: Пур) is a river in the
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 fe ...
,
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...
. It has a length of — counting the length of the Pyakupur at its head. The area of its
basin is .
The
Urengoy gas field and
Gubkin gas and oil field are located in the basin of the Pur.
Course
The Pur is formed at the confluence of the
Pyakupur and
Ayvasedapur rivers, which have their sources in the northern slopes of the
Siberian Uvaly. It flows roughly northwards across the northern
West Siberian Plain,
meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ban ...
ing strongly. In its lower course its channel divided into branches.
Purovsky District is named after the river.
Just a few miles west of the mouth of the
Taz Taz or TAZ may refer to:
Geography
* Taz (river), a river in western Siberia, Russia
* Taz Estuary, the estuary of the river Taz in Russia
People
* Taz people, an ethnic group in Russia
** Taz language, a form of Northeastern Mandarin spoken ...
, the Pur flows into the
Taz Estuary, which is connected through the
Gulf of Ob with 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 archipela ...
. The river freezes up in November and stays icebound until May.
See also
*
List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European Russia, European and an North Asia, 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. Th ...
References
External links
Gas production
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