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  Lena River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lena River (Russian: Ле́на) in Siberia is the 10th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest watershed.
The total length of the river is estimated at 4,400 km (2,800 m.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov is believed to have named his alias after the river Lena - Lenin - after the events leading to the so-called Lena execution of workers by the tsarist army in April of 1912.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Gazetteer (Alc-Ale)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Aldan is a river in the Soviet Union in the south-east Yakut ASSR, rising in the Aldan Mountains and flowing 2700 km north and west to the Lena River.
Aldan is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Alderminster is a large village on the River Stour in Warwickshire, England.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /G1E.HTM   (2143 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of the Arctic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The river rises in the western slopes of the Baikal Range 12 km west of Lake Baikal, and is fed by more than 2,500 tributaries on its long journey north.
The largest western tributaries are the Aldan (2,273 km), Vitim (1,837 km), Olekma (1,436 km) rivers; its eastern tributaries are the Vilui (2,650 km), Linde (804 km), and Nyuja (798 km).
The Lena river is an important waterway and navigable for almost all its length beginning with the village of Kachuga 4,125 km from its mouth.
www.routledge-ny.com /ref/arctic/lena.html   (834 words)

  
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Anadyr AnadyrenedĬr´, river, c.695 mi (1,120 km) long, rising on the Anadyr Plateau, NE Russian Far East, and flowing S then E into Anadyr Bay, an inlet of the Bering Sea.
Amu Darya Amu Darya or Amudaryaboth: ämoo´ däryä´, ä´moo där´ye, river, c.1,600 mi (2,580 km) long, formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Pandj rivers, which rise in the Pamir Mts.
Aldan Aldan, river, c.1,400 mi (2,250 km) long, rising in the Stanovoy Range, Sakha Republic, SE Siberian Russia.
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 AllRefer.com - Aldan, river, Russia (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
Aldan, river, Russia, CIS And Baltic Physical Geography
It flows north and east, past Tommot and around the Aldan Plateau, before flowing generally northwest to enter the Lena River c.100 mi (160 km) N of Yakutsk.
The Amga, Uchur, and Maya rivers are its main tributaries.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AldanRiv.html   (195 words)

  
 Aldan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aldan is a river in the Verkhoyansk Range, Russia.
Aldan is also a borough in Delaware, United States.
Aldan is also a town in Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia.
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 The Aldan River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Lena River and Aldan River flow through some of the wildest country in Siberia.
Fossil mollusks, trilobites, brachiopods, and a large number of millimeter-sized, problematic fossils collectively referred to as "small shelly fossils" characterize the fossils of the region.
Localities on the Aldan River have been studied intensely by both Russian and foreign researchers.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /cambrian/aldan.html   (115 words)

  
 Sakha - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Covers the republic's territory to the west of the Lena River as well as the territories of uluses located on the both sides of the Lena River.
Navigable Lena River (4,310 km), as it moves northward, includes hundreds of small tributaries located in the Verkhoyansk Range.
The members of religious groups who were banished to Sakha in the second half of the 19th century began to grow wheat, oats, and potatoes.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /sakha_republic.htm   (1261 words)

  
 Aldan River - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Aldan River is the second-longest tributary of the Lena River in eastern Siberia.
The river is 2,273 km long, of which around 1,600 km is navigable.
It rises in the Stanovoy Mountains south west of Neryungri, then north east past Aldan and through Tommot, Ust'-Maya, El'dikan and Khandyga before turning north west and joining the Lena near Batamay.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Aldan_River   (136 words)

  
 Aldan (town) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Aldan (town)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The town is an economic centre of the Aldan gold- and mica-mining area on the main Amur–Yakutsk highway.
Aldan was founded in 1923, and became a town in 1939.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Aldan+(town)   (105 words)

  
 Talisman Seven 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aldan had been in love with her for almost as long as she had been around, though they had been courting for eighteen months and sleeping together for ten.
Aldan didn't notice the lack as that was how she always kissed him, in public at least.
Aldan was in his room the next afternoon when the page arrived and informed him that his father was awaiting his attendance.
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 russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The principal rivers are the Ural, Ob and Volga.
upper Lena and Trans-Biakalia, on the rivers of the Vitim - Olekma -
Aldan plateau and on the Amur and it's tributaries.
www.ostviking.homestead.com /russia.html   (4119 words)

  
 Scott Polar Research Institute » Russian North and Far East Regions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The main of Sakha are: the Lena river (4,400 km) and its major tributaries, the Vilyuy river (2,650 km) and the Aldan river (2,273 km).
The Sakha are thought to have migrated northwards from around Lake Baykal to the middle reaches of the Lena river and the lower Vilyuy and Aldan Rivers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Cattle and horse breeding are most common in river areas and alasy (flat depressions caused by thermal processes in permafrost areas) where the climate encourages the growth of good grass.
www.spri.cam.ac.uk /resources/rfn/sakha.html   (4327 words)

  
 Wolfram Heldmaier
[Guidbook [sic] for excursion on the Aldan and Lena Rivers.
[Stratigraphy of the Cambrian of the Aldan Anteclise and the palaeontological basis of the distinction of the Amgan stage].
Aldan [On the lower boundary pf the Pestrotsvet Formation in the Aldan River basin].
www.uni-wuerzburg.de /palaeontologie/Stuff/litera7.htm   (5927 words)

  
 Yana River -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Yana River (Яна in (A native or inhabitant of Russia) Russian), a (A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)) river in (Click link for more info and facts about Sakha) Sakha in (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia.
It is 872 (A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)) km in length.
The river begins at the (A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)) confluence of the rivers Sartang and Dulgalakh.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/Y/Ya/Yana_River.htm   (218 words)

  
 A Brief History of the Circumpolar North - Aboriginal Peoples.
Humans, adapted to hunting such large mammals, flourished in the river valleys from central Europe to the Ukraine and beyond, in central Asia and along the Pacific coast.
Archaeologists have found the remains of a camp at Berelekh on the Arctic coast at the mouth of the Indigirka River and there is evidence of seasonal occupation of coastal areas by salmon fishers at the south end of the Sea of Okhotsk.
On the coasts of mainland Alaska, the Norton tradition is well-developed and extends from the Alaska Peninsula to the mouth of the Firth River in the Yukon Territory.
www.yukoncollege.yk.ca /~agraham/nost202/module3/cphistory/natives.htm   (6861 words)

  
 Sakha -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Covers the republic's territory to the west of the (A Russian river in Siberia; flows northward into the Laptev Sea) Lena River as well as the territories of (Click link for more info and facts about ulus) uluses located on the both sides of the Lena River.
Navigable (A Russian river in Siberia; flows northward into the Laptev Sea) Lena River (4,310 km), as it moves northward, includes hundreds of small (Click link for more info and facts about tributaries) tributaries located in the (Click link for more info and facts about Verkhoyansk Range) Verkhoyansk Range.
In August of 1638, the (A city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation) Moscow Government formed a new administrative unit with the administrative center of Lensky Ostrog, which cemented the town's ascendancy in the territory.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sakha.htm   (1623 words)

  
 Aldan River --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Aldan River is 1,412 miles (2,273 km) long, the second largest tributary (after the Vilyuy) of the Lena, and drains more than 281,500 square miles (729,000 square km).
Among rivers draining into the Pacific Ocean are the Anadyr, Amur (combined with the Sungari and the Ussuri), Huang He, Yangtze (Chang), Xi, Red, Mekong, and Chao Phraya.
The principal tributary of the Paraná River, the Paraguay is the fifth largest river in South America.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=5588   (757 words)

  
 Large twin ring structure revealed in NE Asia with the map analysis: A new look at Yana and Indigirka river basins and ...
The twin structure is located in the North-East Asia, in Russia, between Lena River mouth and Magadan coast of the Sea of Okhotsk.
The circular outlines of YRS are marked with the large river valleys, located outside: Lena River (lower of Aldan River mouth), Aldan River (lower of Amga River mouth), Indigirka River (between 64 and 67° N latitude), and Selennyakh River (its N to S running segment).
Weather observations at Verkhoyansk on Yana river, near the center of YRS, and at Oymyakon on Indigirka river, near the center of ORS, have determined as early as in 1930s that these areas are the coldest places at the Northern hemisphere of the Earth.
www.gisdevelopment.net /application/miscellaneous/ma03073abs.htm   (1038 words)

  
 OUR ELDIKAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Eldikan – settlement in the Ust-Maisky ulus of the Republic Sakha (Yakutia), the centre of similar settlement administration.
It is located on the east bank of the river Aldan, 64 km northeast of the ulus centre of Ust-Maya and 400 km to the southeast of Yakutsk.
It is located on the east bank of the river Aldan, 56 km to the northeast of the ulus centre of Ust-Maya, distance to Eldikan is 8 km.
www32.brinkster.com /zhomir/eldikan.asp   (230 words)

  
 Vitus Bering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was this immense lowland of steppes and wet tundra, containing some of the world’s largest rivers that are frozen from October until May, that Vitus Bering and his crew now had to cross with their heavy load of supplies.
The Ob River is approximately 5400 kilometers long, and along its course through steppes and tundra there are many kilometers of boggy meadows which in summer are swarming with enormous numbers of mosquitoes.
The east Siberian highland, which stretches from the Lena River in the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east, is primarily an untracked and wild mountain landscape with peaks reaching to 3000 meters and occasional highland plateaus.
www.dpc.dk /PolarPubs/Digital/VitusBering.html   (4956 words)

  
 Gifts of the rive, Kulakovsky A.E.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But in the dialogue of the Lena river and the Arctic Ocean other sense, other idea is not less precisely and convincingly traced also, namely: art representation of unity, wisdom of the mother - nature, capable to protect itself from a person.
The Poet with special love describes " the younger daughter of Aldan - madam " " small Tatta-khotun "; with bitterness represents to the Ocean " the painful, capricious son of Vitim - madam " " the boy Bodaibo ".
And these philosophical ideas, the assumptions of the author, expressed in poetic descriptions, symbolical images, are penetrated with light love to the native land, pride of majestic beauty of the nature of Yakutia.
www.sitc.ru /kulakov/rive_en.html   (801 words)

  
 Search Results for Lena - Encyclopædia Britannica
British actress and theatrical manager well known for her work in organizing entertainment for the troops at the front during World War I. In 1917 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
river and tributary of the Lena River in eastern Siberia, Russia.
The Aldan River is 1,412 miles (2,273 km) long, the second...
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 homepage of Vladimir Dinets-Kolyma Highway
Driving on frozen rivers is dangerous here: they often freeze all the way to the bottom, and then break through ice barriers, instantly flooding canyons downstream.
Aldan Highlands of Southern Yakutia are rich with gold and coal deposits.
Most rivers have been poisoned by gold mines, and forest fires are common.
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 Mineralogical Record: Platinum-group minerals from the Konder Massif, Russian Far East   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is one of several concentric ultramafic massifs that intruded the Archean and Proterozoic rocks of the Siberian Platform (Aldan Shield) as shown in Figure 1.
The Konder River flows northward from the center of the basin where it is connected to a system of radially dispersed streams (Fig.
The Konder River emerges through a trough-like gap, changing direction to the northwest until it converges with the Uorgalan River, itself a tributary of the Maya River, which eventually flows into the Aldan River.
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 Aldan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Daisy Aldan was born in 1923 in New York City to Louis Aldan, a designer, and Esther Edelheit Aldan, an actress...
Aldan Electric Supply, Inc. is a full line stocking electrical wholesale distributor.
Aldan Electric Supply, Inc. Main Office 734 Brookhaven Drive Orlando, FL 32803 407 896-7761...
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 Welcome To Yakutia! The Lena river   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Lena is one of the ten greatest rivers on the planet.
Some of the Lena's tributaries, such as the Vitim, the Olyokma, the Aldan, and the Vilyuy, are longer than some of the greatest rivers in Europe.
The river is bounded in ice for seven months.
www.yakutiatravel.com /eng/travdir/lena.htm   (178 words)

  
 Lena River:  North-flowing River of Eastern Siberia
One of the world's longest rivers, it is the western border of Northeast Siberia.
The river has been a key conduit for people and cultural diffusion for millennia, and the Dyuktai culture was discovered there.
Ust-Lensky or Lena River Delta Region: second largest river delta in the world, vital breeding grounds for migratory birds in the summer, home year round to polar bear and Arctic Fox.
www.workingdogweb.com /Lena-River.htm   (1372 words)

  
 ipedia.com: History of Siberia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As early as the 11th century the Novgorodians had occasionally penetrated into Siberia; but the fall of the Novgorod republic and the loss of its north-eastern dependencies checked the advance of the Russians across the Urals.
In 1643 Vassili Poyarkov's boats descended the Amur, returning to Yakutsk by the Sea of Okhotsk and the Aldan River, and in 1649 - 1650 Yerofey Khabarov occupied the banks of the Amur.
In the same year in which Khabarov explored the Amur (1648) the Cossack Dezhnev, starting from the Kolyma River, sailed round the north-eastern extremity of Asia through the strait which was rediscovered and described eighty years later by Bering (1728).
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 Aldan River -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Aldan River is the second-longest (A branch that flows into the main stream) tributary of the (A Russian river in Siberia; flows northward into the Laptev Sea) Lena River in eastern (A vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters) Siberia.
The (A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)) river is 2,273 km long, of which around 1,600 km is navigable.
It rises in the (Click link for more info and facts about Stanovoy Mountains) Stanovoy Mountains south west of Neryungri, then north east past Aldan and through Tommot, Ust'-Maya, El'dikan and Khandyga before turning north west and joining the Lena near Batamay.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/aldan_river.htm   (130 words)

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