The Selemdzha () is a
river
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in the
Amur Region of
Russia
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. It is the biggest, left
tributary
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of the
Zeya
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. The length of the river is 647 km. The area of its basin 68,600 km².
Russian State Water Register - Река СЕЛЕМДЖА
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Course
The Selemdzha has its source where three mountain ranges meet the Bureya Range
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, the Dusse-Alin from the south, the Ezop Range
The Ezop Range (russian: Хребет Эзоп) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation.
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from the west and the Yam-Alin from the north, and flows first northwest with the Selemdzha Range
The Selemdzha Range (russian: Селемджинский хребет) is a range of mountains in the Russian Far East. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation.
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to the north, and then westwards across the Zeya-Bureya Plain.[Селемджа](_blank)
// Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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: (in 30 vols.) / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. The Baikal–Amur Mainline crosses the river just west of Fevralsk and reaches the Zeya north of the Trans-Siberian Railway
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and Blagoveshchensk
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.
Its main tributaries are the Ulma and Byssa on the left, as well as the Nora and Orlovka (Mamyn) on the right. The Selemdzha freezes up in early November and stays under the ice until early May.
See also
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
External links
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Rivers of Amur Oblast
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