The Shangina ( rus, Шангина; sah, Шангин) is a river in Yakutia (
Sakha Republic),
Russia
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drainage basin
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of .
It is a right tributary of the Indigirka, flowing across the
Middle Kolyma and
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districts. The river usually freezes in early October and stays frozen until late May or early June.
History
In the summer of 1870 the Shangina was explored by geographer and ethnologist Baron
Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia. After he charted the
Suor-Uyata and
Ulakhan-Sis
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East Siberian Lowlands, Maydell reached the
Indigirka. Going about upriver he found out that the Ulakhan-Sis was separated from the
Alazeya Plateau to the south by the roughly wide plain of the Shangina.
[ Магидович И. П., Магидович В. И. Очерки по истории географических открытий. — М., 1985. — Т. IV. — С. 100. — 335 с.]
Course
The Shangina river begins in the northern part of the
Alazeya Plateau. It heads first roughly eastwards then descends into in a wide floodplain where it heads northwestwards. There are many lakes in the middle and lower part of the basin. Finally the Shangina joins the right bank of the Indigirka from its mouth. There are no inhabited places in its course.
Its main tributary is the
long Ogustakh on the right.
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See also
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List of rivers of Russia
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References
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External links
Meteorological stations and hydrological gauges within the study basins
Rivers of the Sakha Republic