Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...
. It has a length of and a
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
of .
The Yablon is a right tributary of the Anadyr. The river and its tributaries are frozen for between eight to nine months every year.Water of Russia - Анадырь /ref> The nearest village is Markovo, located to the east of the mouth.
History
The formerly unexplored Yablon river, was surveyed in March 1870 by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia. Магидович И. П., Магидович В. И. Очерки по истории географических открытий. — М., 1985. — Т. IV. — С. 100. — 335 с.
Course
The source of the Yablon is in the northeastern slopes of high Mount Snezhnaya, in the eastern section of the
Oloy Range
The Oloy Range ( rus, Олойский хребет) is a mountain range in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.Kolyma Mountains. The Yablon flows first northeastwards, then makes a wide bend roughly midway through its course and flows southeastwards splitting into multiple smaller channels. Finally it joins the right bank of the Anadyr a little upstream from the mouth of the
Yeropol
The Yeropol (russian: Еропол) is a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It has a length of and a drainage basin of .
The Yeropol is a right tributary of the Anadyr and its basin is in a mountainous area of Chukotka. The village of Ch ...
. The Yablon meets the Anadyr from its mouth.Google Earth
The river basin is in a desolate, mountainous area of Chukotka where there are no inhabited places. The main tributaries of the Yablon are the long Krestovaya and long Salamikha from the left, and the long Golaya from the right.
See also
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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 ...