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Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are Volga (which is the longest river in Europe), Pechora, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dnieper and the Western Dvina . In Asia, important rivers are the Ob, the Irtysh, the Yenisei, the Angara, the Lena, the ...
The Siberian Route, a road begun in the 1730s, ran southeast from Perm to Kungur, then over another low pass to Yekaterinburg (1723) and Tobolsk. By 1885 there was a railway from Perm to Yekaterinburg. Another branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1891) goes south of the Urals through Chelyabinsk (1736), Omsk (1716) and Novosibirsk (1893).
The Ob ( / ˈɒb /) [5] is a major river in Russia. It is in western Siberia, and with its tributary the Irtysh forms the world's seventh-longest river system, at 5,410 kilometres (3,360 mi). The Ob forms at the confluence of the Biya and Katun which have their origins in the Altai Mountains. It is the westernmost of the three great Siberian ...
The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East, and is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Yenisey). The Lena is the eleventh-longest river in the world, and the longest river entirely within Russia , with a length of 4,294 km (2,668 mi) and a drainage basin of ...
Rivers of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (2 C, 17 P) Yenisei River (2 C, 5 P) Categories: Rivers of Russia. Landforms of Siberia. Rivers of Asia.
The Amur proper is 2,824 km (1,755 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 1,855,000 km 2 (716,000 sq mi). [1] [7] If including its main stem tributary, the Argun, the Amur is 4,444 km (2,761 mi) long, [7] [2] making it the world's tenth longest river . The Amur is an important river for the aquatic fauna of Northeast Asia.
The river empties into the Kolyma Gulf of the East Siberian Sea, a division of the Arctic Ocean. The Kolyma is 2,129 kilometres (1,323 mi) long. The area of its basin is 647,000 square kilometres (250,000 sq mi). [3] The average discharge at Kolymskoye is 3,254 m 3 /s (114,900 cu ft/s), with a high of 26,201 m 3 /s (925,300 cu ft/s) reported in ...
Kochechum. The Nizhnyaya Tunguska (Russian: Ни́жняя Тунгу́ска, IPA: [ˈnʲiʐnʲɪjə tʊnˈɡuskə], meaning "Lower Tunguska") is a river in Siberia, Russia, that flows through the Irkutsk Oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The river is a right tributary of the Yenisey joining it at Turukhansk (see Siberian River Routes ).