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The Kolyma (Russian: Колыма, IPA:; Yakut: Халыма, romanized: Xalıma) is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Magadan Oblast of Russia.
Kolyma (Колыма́, IPA: [kəɫɨˈma]) or Kolyma Krai (Колымский край) is a historical region in the Russian Far East that includes the basin of Kolyma River and the northern shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the Kolyma Mountains (the watershed of the two [1]).
Geographical position. The river is formed from the confluence of Ayan-Yuryakh and Kulu, originating in the Okhotsk-Kolyma upland. The length of 65 km from the source of the river Kisielice, the right part of the river Kullu – 2513 km), of which about 1.4 thousand km on the territory of the Magadan region, the rest – on the territory of Yakutia.
Situated in the most northern part of Russia’s Far East, the region known as Kolyma has everything: deep clean rivers, boundless forests and rich mineral wealth.
9 lip 2021 · The Kolyma River watershed in northeastern Siberia, with an area of 650,000 km 2, is the sixth-largest Arctic watershed, and the world's largest watershed entirely underlain by continuous permafrost (Holmes et al., 2012).
13 lip 2019 · Kolyma’s Annual Purge. For about eight months of the year, the Kolyma River is frozen to depths of several meters. But every June, the river thaws and carries vast amounts of suspended sediment and organic material into the Arctic Ocean.
29 sty 2020 · The Kolyma River watershed in Northeast Siberia is the world's largest watershed (653,000 km 2) entirely underlain by continuous permafrost (Holmes et al., 2012). As for all arctic rivers, its discharge is characterized by a strong seasonality.
