The Pyasina (russian: Пясина) is a river in
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Si ...
,
Russia
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. The river is long, and its
basin covers .
The Pyasina River originates in
Lake Pyasino and flows into the
Pyasino Gulf of the
Kara Sea
The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. ...
. There are more than 60,000
lake
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...
s in the basin of the Pyasina covering a total area of . The river freezes up in late September or early October and stays under the ice until June. It is connected to the river
Chetyrekh through its right distributary Staritsa.
History
The
Dvina merchant Kondratiy Kurochkin reached the mouth of the Pyasina in 1610.
In 1614, an
ostrog was built on the river to collect
yasak
''Yasak'' or ''yasaq'', sometimes ''iasak'', (russian: ясак; akin to Yassa) is a Turkic word for "tribute" that was used in Imperial Russia to designate fur tribute exacted from the indigenous peoples of Siberia.
Origin
The origins of yasa ...
from the natives.
[ In 1935, before the ]Dudinka
Dudinka (russian: Дуди́нка; Nenets: Тут'ын, ''Tutꜧyn'') is a town on the Yenisei River and the administrative center of Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It used to be the administrative center of Ta ...
-Norilsk
Norilsk ( rus, Нори́льск, p=nɐˈrʲilʲsk, ''Norílʹsk'') is a closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk ...
railway had been built, the river Pyasina and Lake Pyasino were used to deliver cargo to the site of the future city of Norilsk
Norilsk ( rus, Нори́льск, p=nɐˈrʲilʲsk, ''Norílʹsk'') is a closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk ...
.По рельсам истории
("Rolling on the rails of history"), ''Zapolyarnaya Pravda'', No. 109 (28.07.2007)
Taimyr reindeer herd
The calving grounds of the Taimyr
reindeer
Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 sub ...
herd, a migrating tundra reindeer (''R.t. sibiricus''), the largest reindeer herd in the world,
is along the right bank of the Pyasina and at the bend of the middle flow of the Agapa.
See also
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Ambarnaya, an inflow of Lake Pyasino
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List of rivers by discharge
This is a list of rivers by their average discharge (that is, their water flow rate). Here, only those rivers whose discharge is more than are shown, as this list does not concern itself with rivers having a water flow rate of less than .
For co ...
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List of rivers of Russia
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References
Rivers of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Drainage basins of the Kara Sea
North Siberian Lowland
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