Anadyrskiy Liman ( Russian : Анадырский Лиман ) or Anadyr Estuary is an estuary on the Gulf of Anadyr in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug , Siberia , Russian Federation .
5-603: It is called a liman because it is separated from the Gulf of Anadyr by the Russkaya Koshka spit in the north and another spit (Geka Point) in the south. The channel into the Gulf of Anadyr through the bar is in the east. The Anadyr Lowlands are located to the west. Anadyrskiy Liman is divided into three parts. The outer bay receives the Tretya River (its mouth is the notch on the south shore). The southern part of
10-546: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Liman (landform) A liman ( Russian : лиман ; Romanian : liman ) is an enlarged estuary formed as a lagoon at the wide mouth of one or several rivers , where flow is nearly fully or partially constrained by a mouth bar of sediments ( peresyp ), as in the Dniester Liman or the Razelm liman . A liman can be maritime (the bar being created by
15-748: The current of a sea) or fluvial (the bar being created by the slowed or turned flow of a sediment-saturated river). The term describes many wet estuaries in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov ; a synonymous term guba (губа) is used in Russian sources for estuaries of the Russian shores in the north. Water in a liman is brackish with a variable salinity: during periods of low fresh-water intake, wide-mouthed, deep examples will be greatly saline from inflow of sea water and evaporation. Such features are found in places with low tidal range , for example along
20-645: The outer bay is shallow. The inner bay is called Onemen Bay and receives the Velikaya through a narrow bay on the southwest. They are separated by a promontory, with the town of Anadyr at its tip. North of the promontory is a series of lakes which form the mouth of the Kanchalan River . The Anadyr River enters the inner bay from the west. The lake south of the Anadyr in this image is Lake Krasnoye . This Chukotka Autonomous Okrug location article
25-942: The western and northern coast of the Black Sea , in the Baltic Sea ( Vistula Lagoon , the Curonian Lagoon ), as well as along the lowest part of the Danube . Examples of limans include Lake Varna in Bulgaria , Lake Razelm in Romania , the Dniester Liman in Ukraine and the Anadyrskiy Liman and Amur Liman in Siberia . English borrows the word from Russian : лиман , romanized : liman ( Russian pronunciation: [lʲɪˈman] ), taken from
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