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 fed ...

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. It has a length of — counting the length of the Pyakupur at its head. The area of its basin is . The

Urengoy gas field The Urengoy gas field in the northern West Siberia Basin is the world's second largest natural gas field after South Pars / North Dome Gas-Condensate field. The gas field has over ten trillion cubic meters (1013 m³) in total deposits. It li ...

and

Gubkin gas and oil field Gubkin (russian: Гу́бкин, ) is a town in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Belgorod on the Oskolets River, a tributary of the Oskol River. Population: History It was founded in the 1930s in place of the village of Korobkovo ...

are located in the basin of the Pur.

Course

The Pur is formed at the confluence of the

Pyakupur The Pyakupur (russian: Пякупур) is a river in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, the left source river of the Pur (Russia), Pur. The length of the Pyakupur is 542 km. The area of its Drainage basin, basin is 31,400 km2., erron ...

and Ayvasedapur rivers, which have their sources in the northern slopes of the

Siberian Uvaly Siberian Uvaly (russian: Сибирские Увалы) is a hilly region in the central part of the West Siberian Plain, Russia. A sector of the hills is a protected area under the name Upper Taz Nature Reserve, which was established in Decem ...

. It flows roughly northwards across the northern

West Siberian Plain The West Siberian Plain (russian: За́падно-Сиби́рская равни́на ''Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina'') is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River ...

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 bank ...

ing strongly. In its lower course its channel divided into branches.

Purovsky District Purovsky District (russian: Пу́ровский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #42-ZAO and municipalLaw #113-ZAO district (raion), one of the seven in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center a ...

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 by ...

, the Pur flows into the

Taz Estuary The Taz Estuary (russian: Тазовская губа) is a long gulf formed by the Taz River. It consists of a roughly long estuary that begins in the area of the settlement of Tazovsky and ends in the Gulf of Ob, which is connected with ...

, which is connected through the

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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 archipelago. ...

. The river freezes up in November and stays icebound until May.

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