The Synya (russian: Сыня) is a river in
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 ...
,
Russia
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. The river is long — from the source of the Mokraya Synya at its head— and has a catchment area of .
The Synya flows across the
Shuryshkarsky District. It is navigable for , between its mouth in the Ob and
Ovgort village.
Course
The Synya is a left
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drai ...
of the
Ob river
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The Ob ( rus, Обь, p=opʲ: Ob') is a major river in Russia. It is in western Siberia; and together with Irtysh forms the world's seventh-longest river system, at . It forms at the confluence of the Biya and Katun which have their origins ...
. It has its sources at the confluence of the long Sukhaya Synya and the long Mokraya Synya, which flow from the eastern slopes of the
Polar Urals
The Polar Urals (russian: Полярный Урал) are a mountain range in the western part of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the northeastern part of Komi, Russian Federation. The border between Europe and Asia runs along the main ridg ...
. The river flows initially southwards, then bends and flows eastwards, within a wide
floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...
located at the northwestern end of the
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 ...
. Finally it meets the left bank of the Malaya Ob, an arm of the Ob, about from its mouth.
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Tributaries
The main tributaries of the Synya are the long
Lesmiyogan (Лесмиёган), the long
Nesyogan (Несъёган) and the long Bolshoy Tukshin (Большой Тукшин) from the right.
[ The river is fed predominantly by snow and is frozen between October and May.][Сыня](_blank)
''Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...
'' in 30 vols. — Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)
Fauna
The main fish species in the river are omul
The omul, ''Coregonus migratorius'', also known as Baikal omul (russian: байкальский омуль), is a whitefish species of the salmon family endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. It is considered a delicacy and is the object o ...
, peled, broad whitefish
The broad whitefish (''Coregonus nasus'') is a freshwater whitefish species. Dark silvery in colour, and like a herring in its shape, its distinctive features include a convex head, short gill rakers, and a mild overbite. It is found in the Arcti ...
, sig, and tugun.
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
External links
Большая вода в Овгорте. Река Сыня отступаетВ Овгорте река Сыня выходит из берегов. Но ее уже ожидали
Rivers of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
West Siberian Plain
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