Lake Tytyl (''Ozero Tytyl'') is a lake of
Bilibinsky District
Bilibinsky District (russian: Били́бинский райо́н; , ''Bilibinkèn rajon'') is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #43-OZ district (raion), one of the six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is located in the west ...
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Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Chukotka (russian: Чуко́тка), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug,, ''Čukotkakèn avtonomnykèn okrug'', is the easternmost federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia. It is an autonomous okrug situated in the Russian ...
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Russia
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Geography
The lake has a basin area of . River
Tytylvaam flows from it.
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/ref> It is located east of Lake Ilirney
Lake Ilirney ( Chukchi ''Элер-нэй'') is a group of two lakes of Bilibinsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Lake Tytyl lies 33 km to the east.
Etymology
The name originated in the Chukchi word ''Eler-nei'', meaning "rocky is ...
, at the feet of the southern slopes of the Ilirney Range
The Ilirney Range (russian: Илирнейский кряж) is a range of mountains in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Far East. Administratively the range is part of Bilibino District. The village of Ilirney is located southwest of the centr ...
, in the upper reaches of the Maly Anyuy River
The Maly Anyuy (russian: Ма́лый Аню́й; ''maly'' meaning "little") is a river in the Kolyma basin in the Russian Far East. Most of the basin of the Maly Anyuy and its tributaries belongs to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative r ...
, 55 km from Ilirney village. Its name originated in the Chukchi word for "entrance gate".[Leontyev VV & Novikov KA, ''Toponymic Dictionary of the Northeastern USSR''. Magadan Publishing House, Magadan 1989, p 374]
See also
*List of lakes of Russia
List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order:
*Arakhley (Арахле́й)
*Baikal (Байкал)
*Baunt (Баунт)
* Beloye, Ryazan Oblast (Белое)
* Beloye, Vologda Oblast (Белое)
* Bokon (Бокон)
* Bolshoye Morskoye (Боль ...
References
Tytyl
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