The Shandrin ( rus, Шандрин) is a river in Yakutia (
Sakha Republic),
Russia
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. It has a length of and a
drainage basin
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of .
It is a left tributary of the Indigirka, flowing across the
Allaikhovsky District. There are no inhabited places in its course. The river usually freezes in early October and stays frozen until late May or early June.
History
The Shandrin
mammoth
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was discovered in 1974 near the river at the feet of a steep slope in the eastern side of 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 ...
by
geologist
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B. S. Rusanov of the
Yakutsk
Yakutsk (russian: Якутск, p=jɪˈkutsk; sah, Дьокуускай, translit=Djokuuskay, ) is the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about south of the Arctic Circle. Fueled by the mining industry, Yakutsk has become one ...
Institute of Geology.
[Shandrinsky mammoth](_blank)
/ref> The study of the carcass revealed that the mammoth had died between 41 and 32 thousand years ago. Its entrails were well-preserved and their contents made it possible to determine the composition of the paleoflora of the area at the time the animal had lived. The contents of the entrails included species of grasses, sedges, wormwood, larch, spruce, dwarf pine, birch, alder and willow.
Course
The Shandrin river begins north of the Arctic Circle, in the Orgolyor (Орголёр) lake of the northern slopes of the Ulakhan-Sis
The Ulakhan-Sis Range ( rus, Улахан-Сис; sah, Улахан Сис) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. . It heads roughly eastwards across a treeless hilly area by the Kondakov Plateau until the mouth of its Antykchan tributary, after which it bends northeastwards and flows across a partly swampy floodplain. There are many lakes in the lower part of the basin where the river meander
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s across a wide plain among lakes. Finally the Shandrin joins the Indigirka in the Kolymskaya channel of its delta near Lake Bolshoi Otor.[ Google Earth][USSR 1:1,000,000 scale ]Operational Navigation Chart
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, Sheet C-7
See also
*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
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External links
Meteorological stations and hydrological gauges within the study basins
Rivers of the Sakha Republic