Byoryolyokh

The Byoryolyokh (Russian: Бёрёлёх,[1] Yakut: Бөрөлөөх) is a river in Yakutia in Russia. It flows into the Russko-Ustyinskaya, a left distributary of the Indigirka.[1]

Byoryolyokh
Indigirka Basin
Location in Sakha, Russia
Native nameБөрөлөөх
Location
CountryRussia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationPolousny Range
 • elevation160 metres (520 ft)
MouthIndigirka
 • coordinates
70°59′07″N 149°02′12″E
 • elevation
1 metre (3 ft 3 in)
Length754 km (469 mi)
Basin size17,000 km2 (6,600 sq mi)
Basin features
ProgressionIndigirka→ East Siberian Sea

History

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.[2]

The northernmost archaeological site of the Paleolithic Stone Age is located by the river at 71°0′N 148°54′E.[3]

Etymology

The name of the river is based on the Yakut language "Börölöökh", meaning "teeming with wolves."[4]

Course

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).[5] The river 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.[6]

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.[7]

There are more than nine thousand lakes in the basin of the Byoryolyokh River. It usually floods over its banks in July and August. In winter it freezes to the bottom.[7]

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See also

References
  1. Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ, Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 47
  2. Vereshchagin, N. K. (2009). "The mammoth "cemeteries" of north-east Siberia". Polar Record. 17 (106): 3. doi:10.1017/S0032247400031296.
  3. Andrea, Alfred J.; McGeough, Kevin; Mierse, William; Aldenderfer, Mark; Neel, Carolyn (2011). World History Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California – Denver, Colorado, Oxford, England: ABC-Clio. p. 217. ISBN 978-1-85109-929-0. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
  4. Leontyev V.V. , Novikova K.A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / Scientific ed. G. A. Menovschikov ; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institute for Archeology, History and Ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House , 1989 . P. 85 . - ISBN 5-7581-0044-7
  5. Река Бёрёлёёх (Елонь) in the State Water Register of Russia (Russian)
  6. Russian State Water Register - Byoryolyokh River (Yelon)
  7. Бёрёлёёх / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017.
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