The Rassokha (russian: Рассоха, also Россоха; sah, Рассоха) is a river in the northeastern part of
Yakutia
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 E ...
,
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-eig ...
. It is the major tributary of the
Alazeya
The Alazeya ( rus, Алазея, r=; sah, Алаһыай, translit=Alahıay) is a river in the northeastern part of Yakutia, Russia which flows into the Arctic between the basins of the larger Indigirka to the west and the Kolyma to the east.
Mou ...
.
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Geography
The river is long. The area of its
basin is .
The Rassokha is formed by the confluence of the rivers
Ilin-Yuryakh and
Arga-Yuryakh
The Arga-Yuryakh (russian: Арга-Юрях; sah, Арҕаа Үрэх, ''Arğaa Ürex'') is a river in Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is one of the major tributaries of the Omoloy. The river has a length of and a drainage basin area of ...
in the
Kolyma Lowland. The original sources of the uppermost river in the network are in the
Ulakhan-Sis Range
The Ulakhan-Sis Range ( rus, Улахан-Сис; sah, Улахан Сис) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. . The Rassokha flows across the
Middle Kolyma District and the
Lower Kolyma District in an area marked by
permafrost, with numerous swamps and lakes. Finally it joins the left bank of the Alazeya from its mouth.
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(in Russian)
The Rassokha has 145 tributaries that are longer than and in its basin there are 7,442 lakes with a total area of .
The river freezes in late September through early October and stays icebound until the end of May.
Fauna
The
forest tundra of the Rassokha basin, together with the
Kondakov Plateau
The Kondakov Plateau ( rus, Кондаковское плоскогорье; sah, Кондаков хаптал хайалаах сирэ) is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The town of Chokurdakh i ...
and the
Suor Uyata
The Suor Uyata ( rus, Суор-Уята; sah, Суор Уйата) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The village of Andryushkino, a small inhabited locality of the Lower Kolyma District, is located ...
and the Ulakhan-Tas, is part of the migration corridor of the
Sundrun reindeer
Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 sub ...
population.
[Ivan Sivtsev , ''The Sundrun population of wild reindeer'', The Ninth North American Caribou Workshop, Kuujjuaq, Québec, Canada, .]
See also
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List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European and an 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. The Asian part is drain ...
References
Rivers of the Sakha Republic
Tributaries of the Alazeya
East Siberian Lowland
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