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Aldan
Aldan (Алдан), major river in Yakutia, Russia; largest right tributary of the Lena, 2,273 km long, basin 729,000 km², mean discharge 5,110 m³/s, navigable 1,753 km, gold-bearing basin.
Amgun
Amgun (Амгунь) is a 723 km left tributary of the lower Amur in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, formed by the Suluk and Ayakit rivers, joining the Amur 146 km from its mouth; a rain-fed salmon river navigable 330 km.
Amur (river, China)
The Amur (Heilong Jiang) is a 2,824 km Northeast Asian river formed by the Argun and Shilka confluence, flowing to the Sea of Okhotsk and forming the Russia-China border for 1,880 km, with a basin shared by Russia, China, and Mongolia.
Angara
The Angara (Ангара́) is a river in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, the only outflow of Lake Baikal and the largest tributary of the Yenisei, dammed for hydropower.
Chara
Chara (Чара) is an 851 km left tributary of the Olekma in Eastern Siberia, and the name of the village Chara, the BAM town Novaya Chara, the Chara Sands dunes, and the gemstone charoite.
Chulym
Chulym (Чулым), Siberian river and largest right tributary of the Ob, 1,799 km long with a 134,000 km² basin, formed by the Bely and Chorny Iyus, snow-fed, navigable 1,173 km, distinct from the smaller Novosibirsk Chulym.
Chuna
The Chuna (Чуна), known as the Uda (Уда) upstream, is a 1,203 km river in southeastern Siberia, Russia, that joins the Biryusa to form the Taseeva.
Coastal Amur
Coastal Amur (FEOW ecoregion 615) is a Russian Far East freshwater ecoregion of temperate coastal rivers around the Amur River estuary, Amurskiy Liman, northwest Sakhalin, and the Shantary Islands, draining to the Sea of Okhotsk, with no endemic fish species.
Irtysh (river, Russia)
Irtysh (Иртыш, Kazakh Ertis): major Siberian river, largest Ob tributary, 4,248 km from the Altai through Kazakhstan to the Ob at Khanty-Mansiysk; basin 1,643,000 km², discharge 99.8 km³/yr.
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.
Lena (landform)
The Lena is a large river in eastern Siberia that flows north from near Lake Baikal to the Laptev Sea, delivering about 15 percent of the freshwater entering the Arctic Ocean.
Markha
Markha (Марха) is a 1,181-km river in Yakutia, Russia, a left tributary of the Vilyuy in the Lena basin, rising on the Vilyuy Plateau. Its basin holds Yakutia's diamond fields and the Kraton-3 (1978) nuclear explosion site; not the Ladakh Markha River.
Maya (landform)
Maya (landform): chiefly the Maya River (Мая, маайа), a right tributary of the Aldan in Siberia, over 1,050 km long; also the Maya Mountains of Belize, Sudan's Mayas wetlands, and a Leyte stream.
Ob
Ob (Обь): west Siberian river and FEOW freshwater ecoregion 602 (Polar freshwaters) in Kazakhstan and Russia; Ob-Irtysh basin 2,975,000 km2, 417 km3/year discharge, ~15% of Arctic Ocean river input.
Ob (鄂畢河, rivers_lake_centerlines:24)
The Ob (Обь; 鄂畢河) is a major west Siberian river formed by the Biya and Katun near Biysk, flowing north to the Gulf of Ob; third largest Arctic river by discharge, chief tributary the Irtysh.
Okhotsk Coast
Okhotsk Coast (FEOW ecoregion 614): Russian Far East freshwater ecoregion of short coastal rivers draining the Sea of Okhotsk coast from Gizhiginskaya Guba Bay to the Kiran River, marked by charr diversity and absence of Coregonidae and Amur fauna.
Olyokma
Rising on the northern slope of the Yablonovy Range, the Olyokma (Олёкма, Olekma) is a right tributary of the Lena and flows through Amur Oblast and Yakutia.
Pur
Pur (Пур), river in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia; formed by the Pyakupur and Aivasedapur, flows 389 km (1,024 km with Pyakupur) north into Tazovskaya Guba, Kara Sea; basin 112,000 km², discharge 884 m³/s, navigable, gas-producing region.
Severnaya Sosva
Severnaya Sosva (Северная Сосьва), Northern Sosva, an 866-km left tributary of the Ob in KHMAO-Yugra, Russia; Ural-fed whitefish river with endemic tugun, historic Mangazeya trade route, and regulated indigenous fishery.
Taz
Taz (Таз), a 1,401 km river in Western Siberia's Yamalo-Nenets Okrug flowing from the Siberian Uvaly to the Kara Sea's Tazovskaya Guba; a pristine permafrost river with 150,000 km² basin, spring snowmelt flood, and 815 km of navigation.
Tom
Tom (Томь), a right-bank tributary of the Ob River in western Siberia, flowing past Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo, Yurga, and Tomsk; name from the Ket word 'Toom', meaning the river; heavily affected by industrial pollution and sediment dredging.
Tyung
Tyung (Тюнг, Түҥ) is a 1,092 km left tributary of the Vilyuy River in Yakutia, Russia, draining 49,800 km² into the Lena basin, with 180 m³/s mean discharge and Cretaceous fossil outcrops.
Uchur
Uchur (Учур), Evenki for "whirlwind", is an 812 km right tributary of the Aldan River in Khabarovsk Krai and Yakutia, Russia, draining 113,000 km² with a mean discharge of 1345 m³/s, navigable on its lower 159 km.
Upper Irtysh
Upper Irtysh (Black Irtysh, Ertix He): headwater reach of the Irtysh River from the Altai glaciers in Xinjiang through Lake Zaysan to Ust-Kamenogorsk; also FEOW freshwater ecoregion 603 with 43 fish species, two endemics, and a large Soviet dam cascade.
Vakh
Vakh (Вах) is a 964 km river in Khanty-Mansia, western Siberia, a right tributary of the Ob with a 76,700 km² basin, mean discharge 665 m³/s, navigable 453 km, and the Samotlor oil field in its basin.
Vasyugan
The Vasyugan (Васюган) is a 1,082 km river in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, and a left tributary of the Ob, rising in the Vasyugan bogs of the West Siberian Plain.
Verkhniy Yenisey
Verkhniy Yenisey (Ulug-Khem, Upper Yenisey) is the upper course of the Yenisei River in Tuva, Russia, from the Maly and Bolshoy Yenisey confluence at Kyzyl; 188 km to the Khemchik mouth, 1,238 km to the Tuba under the wider definition.
Vilyuy
Vilyuy (Вилюй) is a 2,650 km Siberian river, the largest left tributary of the Lena in Yakutia, with a 454,000 km² permafrost basin, a dam at Chernyshevsky, and diamond-mining region around Mirny; distinct from a small Neyva tributary of the same name.
Vitim
Vitim (Витим) is a 1,837 km right tributary of the Lena in eastern Siberia, draining 225,000 km², with rain-fed flow, Bodaybo gold mining, and Pleistocene glacial Lake Vitim megafloods.
Yenisei
Yenisei (Енисей), Siberia's largest Arctic river, formed near Kyzyl by the Bolshoi and Malyi Yenisei; 4092 km long, 2,580,000 km² basin, 17,400 m³/s flow into the Kara Sea, heavily dammed.