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Kolyma (landform)

Kolyma (Колыма), 2,129 km Siberian Arctic river in Magadan Oblast and Yakutia, largest river fully in continuous permafrost, 647,000 km² basin, Kolyma and Ust-Srednekanskaya hydroelectric stations.

Kolyma protected area: the Natural Park "Kolyma" (Природный парк "Колыма") in Srednekolymsky ulus, Sakha (Yakutia), created 2000, renamed 2006, plus Kolyma basin protected areas, the KBA lowland, and ecoregion 609.

Kolyma (Колыма)

Kolyma (Колыма): northeastern Siberian region around the Kolyma River basin (~650,000 km²), capital Magadan. Gold region developed by Dalstroy with Gulag labor from the 1930s; today a mining economy producing 55.1 t gold (2025).

Kolyma Lowland

The Kolyma Lowland (Колымская низменность) is a vast permafrost-covered coastal lowland in northeastern Siberia, Russia, between the Indigirka and Kolyma rivers, a principal repository of ice-rich Yedoma deposits.

Oct 22, 2026

Kolyma Tales

Kolyma Tales (Колымские рассказы) is a cycle of stories and sketches by Russian writer Varlam Shalamov about life in the Soviet labor camps, written between 1954 and 1973 after his imprisonment on Kolyma.

Kolyvansky Coal Mine

Kolyvansky Coal Mine, formally AO "Razrez Kolyvansky", is a surface coal mine in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, producing high-grade anthracite from the Kolyvanskoye deposit in the Gorlovsky basin.

Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis

The Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis, known as locality HK6, is a Predynastic elite cemetery at Hierakonpolis, Egypt, used from the Naqada period, holding 52 ceremonial animal burials.

Kom el-Dikka

Kom El Deka, also known as Kom el-Dikka, is an excavated ancient quarter of central Alexandria, Egypt, with a Roman odeon, imperial baths, and lecture halls, excavated since 1960.

Kom el-Gir

Kom el-Gir is a settlement mound in the northwestern Nile Delta, about 4 km northeast of Buto, occupied from the Ptolemaic era to Late Roman or early Islamic times.

Kom el-Hisn

Kom el-Hisn is a settlement mound in the western Nile Delta of Egypt, occupied mainly during the Old Kingdom and identified with the ancient town of Imu.

Kom el-Khamaseen

Kom el-Khamaseen is a small necropolis at the southwestern edge of Saqqara, Egypt, used from about 2400 to 2050 BC and holding the tomb of Imephor, high priest of Ptah.

Kom el-Nana

Kom el-Nana is a large mud-brick sun temple enclosure built by Akhenaten at the southern end of his city Akhetaten, modern Amarna, Egypt. Its reliefs identify it as the Sunshade of Re, probably of Queen Nefertiti.

Kom el-Sultan

Kom el-Sultan is the walled town mound and temple enclosure of Abydos, Egypt, containing mud-brick temples built from about 3000 to 360 B.C. around the cult of Osiris.

Kom Firin

Kom Firin, also known as Tell Afrin or Kom Afrin, is a 47-hectare archaeological settlement site in the northwestern Nile Delta, Egypt, occupied from Ramesses II until late Antiquity.

Kom K and Kom W

Kom K and Kom W are two Neolithic settlement mounds on the North Shore of the Faiyum lake in Egypt, occupied around 4850–4250 BC and excavated by Gertrude Caton-Thompson in the 1920s.

Oct 22, 2026

Kom Kingdom

The Kom Kingdom is a traditional kingdom of the Kom people in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon, centered on its royal seat at Laikom in the Boyo Division.

Kom Ombo Solar Plant

The Kom Ombo Solar Plant is a 200 MW utility-scale photovoltaic power plant in Aswan Governorate, Egypt, built and operated by Saudi company ACWA Power, commercially operational since July 2024.

Komachi (train)

Komachi (こまち) is the shinkansen train service of the Akita Shinkansen line, operated by JR East between Tokyo and Akita in northern Japan since 1997.

Komagata Maru incident

The Komagata Maru incident: 1914 event in which a Japanese steamship carrying 376 Punjabi passengers was denied landing at Vancouver for two months under Canada's continuous journey regulation and forced back to India.

Komainu (狛犬)

Komainu (狛犬), "Korean dog" or lion-dog, are paired Japanese guardian statues at shrine and temple entrances, one open-mouthed (agyō) and one closed-mouthed (ungyō), transmitted from China via Korea and used to ward off evil spirits.

Sep 21, 2026

Komal Jhaveri

Komal Jhaveri is a breast medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she heads the Endocrine Therapy Research Program and led the INAVO120 and EMBER-3 trials.

Komani hydroelectric plant

The Komani hydroelectric plant (Hidrocentrali i Komanit) is a 600 MW hydropower station on the Drin River in Albania, supplying roughly a third of the country's electricity.

Komar mass

The Komar mass is a definition of total mass-energy in general relativity, introduced by Arthur Komar in 1959 for stationary spacetimes and equal to the ADM mass there.

Komaram Bheem

Komaram Bheem (1901–1940) was a Gond tribal leader of Adilabad, Hyderabad State, who led the 1940 Jodeghat rebellion against Nizam-era forest and land policies under the slogan Jal, Jangal, Jameen; he is commemorated at Jodeghat and namesake of Kumuram Bheem Asifabad district.