The Khroma ( Russian : Хрома ) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation . It is 685 kilometres (426 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 19,700 square kilometres (7,600 sq mi).
12-920: The source of the Khroma is at the confluence of the Tamteken and the Nemalak-Arangas, flowing down from the Polousny Range . It crosses the Yana-Indigirka Lowland , part of the greater East Siberian Lowland . It flows across the tundra roughly northeastwards and finally it has its mouth west of the mouth of the Lapcha in Khroma Bay which is connected with the East Siberian Sea . Owing to its extreme northerly location
24-592: A favorable habitat for many rare animals. The region is practically uninhabited and full of lakes and marshes. Wild reindeer , Siberian cranes , Canadian cranes , marsh sandpipers and Ross's gulls are abundant in the Khroma River wetlands. The lesser white-fronted goose , brent goose , Bewick's swan and the spectacled eider are also found in the Khroma-Sundrun Interfluvial Area. Gold and tin mining upriver are affecting
36-796: A roughly east/ west direction from the headwaters of the Khroma River to the Indigirka for about 175 kilometers (109 mi). The highest peak is 968 metres (3,176 ft) high. In the east, the Ulakhan-Sis , a prolongation of the range on the other side of the Indigirka River, stretches eastwards. To the west rises the Kyun-Tas and southwest of it the Selennyakh Range . Lakes Ozhogino and Suturuokha are located by
48-805: Is a river in Yakutia in Russia . It flows into the Russko-Ustyinskaya , a left distributary of the Indigirka . By the Byoryolyokh more than 8,000 bones from at least 140 woolly mammoths have been found in a single spot, apparently having been swept there by the current. The northernmost archaeological site of the Paleolithic Stone Age is located by the river at 71°0′N 148°54′E / 71.000°N 148.900°E / 71.000; 148.900 . The name of
60-678: Is also known as "Yelon" ( Russian : Елонь ) in a section of its lower course. It joins the Indigirka from the left at the Russo-Ustinsky Canal , the western arm of the Indigirka River near its mouth, not far from Chokurdakh . The main tributaries of the Byoryolyokh are the Wese-Killah on the left; and the Ulakhan-Killah (Tiit), Selgannah and Ary-May on the right. There are more than nine thousand lakes in
72-613: The Sakha Republic , Far Eastern Federal District , Russia. This range is one of the areas of Yakutia where kigilyakhs are found. The area of the Polousny Range was first mapped by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia. The Chondon mammoth was discovered in 2013, at the feet of the Polousny Range in the Chondon basin, 66 km south-west of
84-455: The Khroma River freezes up in early October and remains icebound until June. The main tributary of the Khroma is the 314 km (195 mi) long Yuryung-Ulakh (Юрюнг-Уулаах) that joins its left bank 9.4 km (5.8 mi) before its mouth. The Kytalyk Wetlands, located between the Khroma and the Sundrun ( Khroma-Sundrun Interfluvial Area ) is an ecologically important area, providing
96-483: The ecology of the region by destroying fish and bird habitat. This Sakha Republic location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in the Russian Far East is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Polousny Range The Polousny Range (Russian: Полоусный кряж ; Yakut : Полоуснай томтороот ) is a mountain range in
108-504: The river is based on the Yakut language Бөрөлөөх , Börölööx , meaning "teeming with wolves ." The source of the Byoryolyokh is located at the confluence of two small rivers north of the Polousny Range . The river flows roughly northeastwards across the Yana-Indigirka Lowland . The length of the Byoryolyokh is 754 kilometres (469 mi). The area of its drainage basin is 17,000 square kilometres (6,600 sq mi). The river
120-598: The southern slopes of the eastern end of the range. The sources of the Allaikha and the Byoryolyokh , two important tributaries of the Indigirka, are located north of the range. The lower slopes of the mountains have larch forests and forest tundra vegetation, while the higher altitudes are covered by mountain tundra . In the context of the singularity of the geology of the Polousny Range, Russian geomorphologist M. Groswald commented: According to V. Spector,
132-517: The structure of the Polousny Range consists of Upper Jurassic schists and sandstones , which are cut off by a leveling surface covered with Pliocene pebbles . But the most interesting thing is that, contrary to the geological logic of the whole region, the blocks and plates of the same Jurassic rocks are pulled up on the northern slope of the ridge —and pulled from the north at that... Byoryolyokh The Byoryolyokh ( Russian : Бёрёлёх , Yakut : Бөрөлөөх , romanized: Börölööx )
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#1732794351548144-642: The village of Tumat . The Polousny Range is part of the Momsko-Chersk Mountain Region ( Russian : Момско-Черская область ). It rises in the southern area of the Yana-Indigirka Lowland , north of the Aby Lowland in the Sakha region. It is made up of mountains of middle height and smooth slopes. It includes separate low mountain ranges with stretches of plain in between roughly aligned from east to west. The main ridge stretches in
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