Lena Delta

At the end of the Lena River Delta is a great stretching 100 km in the Laptev Sea and is located about 400 km (250 miles) wide. The delta is frozen tundra for about 7 months of the year, but in May transforms the region into a lush wetland area in the coming months. Part of the area is protected as a Wildlife Reserve in the Lena Delta.

The Lena Delta is divided into a multitude of flat islands. The most important are (from west to east): Chychas aryt, Petrouchka, Saga control Samakh Diyete Ary, Turkan Bel'keydere, Sasyllakh Ary, Kolkhoztakh Bel'keydere, Grigoriy Diyelyakh Bel'kee (Grigoriy Islands) Nerpa Uolun aryt , Bel Misha "keydere, Atakhtay Bel'kedere, Arangastakh, Urdiuk Pastakh Bel'key, Past AGYS 'aryt, Dallalakh Island, Ary Otto, Ulla Khan and Orto Ary aryt UES.

Turukannakh-Kumagai is a long and narrow island to the west bank of the Lena Delta.

One of the islands of the Lena Delta, "Ostrov Amerika-Kuba-aryt" or "Ostrov Kuba-aryt" was the name of the island of Cuba during the Soviet era. It is located on the north coast.

Along The Lena

At the top of the west and northwest of Lake Baikal, the river flows mainly northward. 4400:. A small lake Baikal in the range, in the Baikal-Lena Reserve, 10 km west of Lake Baikal, 1800. The Lena flows north to 19 km, 600 meters to lose altitude and becomes possible in the rafts. Branches to the west and then south to lose another 600 meters to 128 km for Chanchur, where a ranger station. 4222: Kachuga: Beginning of navigation, route of Irkutsk. 4197: Verkholensk: Kulenga mouth of the river north-west through the mountains, the river tutur. 4108: Zhigalovo: start of passenger service, including hydrofoil to Ust-Kut. Canyon downstream.

In the middle section of the river flows mainly north-east. 3705: Ust-Kut, northwest of the northern tip of Lake Baikal. In times of the Cossacks, was the site of a portage between the Yenisei and Lena. Today is the point where the railway crosses the Baikal-Amur mainline Lena on a bridge and manages 80% of the load in the region of the Sakha Republic. 3698: Lena: It's really a part of Ust-Kut, which is widely dispersed. Lena is the river port. 3397: Kirensk: harbor and old Cossack. 3101: "The path of the devil," a section of flood danger. 3096: Shcheki ("cheeks"), a narrow section, with cliffs and turns. Republic of Sakha border. 2955: Vitim: Vitim River and south. We are now north of Lake Baikal. River widens. Many dead trees in the water. 2931: Peledui: Peledui River, ship repair company and the salt mines. 2744: Lensk: the most important port between Kirensk and Yakutsk. Route 230 km north of the mine Mir.

There was a breakpoint in the "Perlinsky Trakht" an old mail route. Lena turns southeast and northeast. 2587: Chepaevo: 2547: Masha, 2337: Olyokminsk:, Olyokma River to the south. The river is 2 km and floodplains. 2213: Uritskoe, 2030-1850: Lena key areas: the rocks along the right bank. 1937: Sinsk, Sinsk River and petroglyphs. 1820: Mokhsogollokh: ferry and opened the way to Yakutsk on the front (west) bank. River to the north. 1805: Pokrovsk: Downstream Cliffs smoking, narrows, CPL and planned instead to fill the Yakutsk Mainline rail Love. Nizhny Bestyakh: 13 km south of Yakutsk on the left side of the road between the southern Lena. In the Kolyma highway to the Pacific Ocean begins in the neighborhood.

At the bottom of the river flows mainly northward. 1710: Yakutsk:. 1560 Aldan River in the east. Rio tends toward the northwest. 1373: Sangar: the coal mines. 1560: Vilyuy River from the west. River going north. 959: the Arctic Circle. 939: Zhigansk, founded in 1632, 865: Agrafena island. 545: Sikhtyakh. 385: Kyushur: regional center. 222: Lena Delta. 0: Tiksi: east of the continent in the delta. Port, airport, two and a half months sailing season. Five degrees north of the Arctic Circle.

History Of The Lena River

Most scientists believe that the name of the Lena was acquired from the original self-Evenks Elyu-One name, meaning "great river". "Lena" is also a popular name for women in Russia.

According to stories about a century after the events in the years 1620-1623 of the Russian fur hunters, led by Demid Pyanda Tunguska lower back, and discovered near the Lena and it was there or build their ships again. In 1623 Pyanda explored some 2400 km of rocky part of the river above its central parity in the range of Yakutia. In 1628, Vasily Bugor men and ten of them have reached the Lena, the natives and collected yasak Kirinsk founded in 1632. In 1631, Piotr Yeniseisk Voivoda Beketov and sent twenty men to find a ostrog Yakutsk (founded 1632). Yakutsk other shipments distributed in the south and east. The delta of the Lena was reached in 1633.

Baron Eduard von Toll, accompanied by Alexander von Bunge, carried out the expedition Lena Delta, and the New Siberian Islands on behalf of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1885. They explained the Lena Delta, with its many arms flowing into the polar sea. Then, in the spring of 1886 they explored the New Siberian Islands and the Yana River and its tributaries. A year and two days the expedition covered 25000 km, 4200 km of rivers which they grew, the implementation of geodetic surveys along the path.

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov Lenin took his pen name, Lena, probably because he was exiled on the plateau of central Siberia.

Lena River Basin

The total length of the river is estimated at 4400 km (2800 miles). Lena River basin area is calculated by 2.49 million km sq (961,394 sq km). The gold is washed from the sand and Vitim Olyokma, and mammoth tusks have been dug in the delta. Lena is an unusual distinction that seems to be the longest river in the world when it appears on the map with the Mercator projection, the most common way to show the spherical shape of a flat surface, since the projection of a tendency to exaggerate the size neighbors of the hubs (no longer the Amazon and Nile rivers and cross the equator.)

Tributaries

The river flows northward between high Kirenga Lena and Lake Baikal. Vitim river drains the northern part of Lake Baikal. The river flows north Olyokma. Amga river is a long curve and parallel to the southeast and flows into the Lena Aldan. Aldan River south makes similar pattern of Aldan and empties into the north of Yakutsk Lena. Maya River, a tributary of Aldan, drains an area almost to the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. The form of T-Vilyuy Chona River system drains most of the area to the west.

Lena River

Lena (Russian: Лена, IPA: [l ʲ enə] Saja: Өлүөнэ, Ölüöne) is the easternmost of the three great rivers of Siberia flowing into the Arctic Ocean (the others being the river Ob and Yenisei River). He is the longest river in the world 11 º and the basin of the ninth. It is the largest Russian River with its basin entirely within national boundaries.

Course

Rising to a height of 1640 meters (5381 feet), the source of the Baikal Mountains south of the Central Siberian Plateau, 7 km (4 million), west of Lake Baikal, Lena flows northeast, which have Kirenga adhered to the river and the river Vitim Olyokma River. From Yakutsk it enters the plains and flows north until it came to the right of the rich river Aldan. Verkhoyansk Range deflects the north-west, then after the main tributary of the left, Vilyuy the river makes its way nearly due north to the Laptev Sea, a division of the Arctic Ocean, draining south-west of the New Siberian Islands Lena Delta - 30,000 square miles (11,583 km ²) area, and went into seven main branches, the most important of which are Bykov, farther from the Middle East.