The Tyugyuene (russian: Тюгюэне or Тюгене; sah, Түгүөнэ, ''Tügüöne'') is a river in

Yakutia Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far E ...

(Sakha Republic),

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. It is a tributary of the

Lena Lena or LENA may refer to: Places * Léna Department, a department of Houet Province in Burkina Faso * Lena, Manitoba, an unincorporated community located in Killarney-Turtle Mountain municipality in Manitoba, Canada * Lena, Norway, a village in ...

with a length of and a drainage basin area of . The river marks the border between Gorny and Kobyaysky Districts in a stretch of its middle course. The name of the river is based on the Evenk word ''"tagin"'' (тагин), meaning "swamp".

Course

The Tyugyuene is a left

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of the Lena. It has its origin at the confluence of the long Ysyakh-Yuryage and Kupsuyu-Yuryakh streams, at an altitude of about in the northeastern part of the

Lena Plateau The Lena Plateau, also known as Prilensky Plateau ( rus, Приленское плато, ''Prilenskoye Plato''; sah, Өлүөнэтээҕи хаптал хайалаах сир), is one of the great plateaus of Siberia. Administratively it is m ...

, southwest of the abandoned village of Abaranda. It heads first a roughly northern direction to the east of the

Lungkha The Lungkha (russian: Лунгха; sah, Луҥха, ''Luŋxa'') is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is the 14th longest tributary of the Lena with a length of — counting its Yychaky tributary. Its drainage basin area is . A3 ...

in its upper course, then it bends northeastwards in its middle course across the

Central Yakutian Lowland The Central Yakutian LowlandJohn Kimble (ed.), ''Cryosols: Permafrost-Affected Soils'' or Central Yakutian Lowlands (russian: Центральноякутская равнина; sah, Саха сирин ортоку намтала), also known as ...

, changing again to northwards. There are small lakes in the broad

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 ...

of the lower course of the river, and it

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s strongly before reaching the Lena floodplain, vast and filled with lakes, to the east of the Sitte. in some stretches the banks are high, with a cliff-like appearance. Finally it meets the Lena from its mouth. Its confluence is at the Khatyng-Tumusakh arm, by the village of Khaptagay, near Sangar on the facing bank. Google Earth The A331 highway has a bridge over the TyugyueneВ Якутии открыли круглогодичную автодорогу «Кобяй» с мостовым переходом через речку Тюгюэне.
/ref> and a gas pipeline crosses the river about upstream from its mouth.

Tributaries

The Tyugyuene has thirty-eight tributaries that are over in length. The largest ones are the long Chyuyolu from the right and the long Olom and long Lamlara from the left. The river freezes between mid October and the first half of May. In some stretches it freezes to the bottom.Глушков А.В: ''Реки востока России.'' Якутск
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Flora and fauna

The vegetation of the Tyunyuene basin is mainly spruce and

larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains fur ...

taiga Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruc ...

, dense in some stretches of the upper course. In the floodplain the coniferous forest gives way to

birch A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech- oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains ...

and

willow Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist so ...

thickets. Since there is little human presence in the area,

Eurasian eagle-owl The Eurasian eagle-owl (''Bubo bubo'') is a species of eagle-owl that resides in much of Eurasia. It is also called the Uhu and it is occasionally abbreviated to just the eagle-owl in Europe. It is one of the largest species of owl, and femal ...

, elk, forest reindeer,

roe deer The roe deer (''Capreolus capreolus''), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer. The male of the species is sometimes referred to as a roebuck. The roe is a small deer, reddish and grey-brown, and well-adapt ...

wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly un ...

, hare, sable and muskrat are common in the river basin.

References

External links

Fishing & Tourism in Yakutia
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Course

Tributaries

Flora and fauna

See also

References

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