The Taui ( rus, Тауй), also known as Kava ( rus, Кава) part of its course, is a river in
Khabarovsk Krai and
Magadan Oblast,
Russian Far East
The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admin ...
. It has a
drainage basin
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of .
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The river is a spawning ground for salmon
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and is part of the Magadan Nature Reserve. Its last stretch is navigable.[
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Course
The Taui river, as the Kava, is formed at an elevation of at the confluence of rivers Rasava and Lozovaya flowing from the Kheidzhan Range, Upper Kolyma Highlands
The Upper Kolyma Highlands ( rus, Верхнеколымское нагорье) is a highland area in Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The biggest town in the highlands is Susuman.
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The Taui flows first southeastwards and then roughly eastwards along the Kava-Taui Plain (Кава-Тауйская равнина), 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 ...
.Карта Кава-Тауйская равнина. Фото из космоса
/ref> In its last stretch it enters an area of wetlands. Finally it flows into the Amakhton Bay, part of the Taui Bay
Taui Bay ( Russian: Тауйская губа; ''Tauyskaya Guba'') is a body of water in the Sea of Okhotsk off the coast of the Magadan Oblast in Russia. The bay opens to the south.
Geography
It is some 130 km (80 mi) wide and 75 km (46 ...
of the Sea of Okhotsk. Its mouth lies west of the Arman lagoon and just southwest of the mouth of the Yana
Yana may refer to:
Locations
*Yana, Burma, a village in Hkamti Township in Hkamti District in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma
*Yana, India, a village in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India
* Yana, Nigeria, an administrative ca ...
.[ Google Earth] The river freezes before mid October and stays frozen until mid May.[
The Kheidzhan Range separates the Taui basin from the Inya basin to the west. The main tributary of the Taui is the long Chyolomdzha (Чёломджа) that joins it in its lower course from the left.]
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
Floating Tours Down The Rivers of Magadan RegionKolyma - Modern Guidebook to Magadan Oblast
Rivers of Magadan Oblast
Drainage basins of the Sea of Okhotsk
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