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  Vitim River | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Vitim River is a major tributary of the Lena River.
With its source east of Lake Baikal, the Vitim flows 1,978 km north through the Transbaykalian Mountains and the town of Bodaybo.
Upstream of Bodaybo, the Vitim is navigable to its confluence with the Lena, west of Lensk.
www.babylon.com /definition/Vitim_River   (75 words)

  
 Meteorite Odds / Ends & Trivia (Vitim Bolide / Meteor / Meteoroid) - Meteorites Australia
It was surmised that the epicenter of the exposure zone lies father to the east (or, perhaps, south-east) of the point previously indicated by the satellite, in the area between the Bolshaya Severnaya and Takhtynga rivers.
It was agreed upon with the District Mayor Nikolai Chekashin, once the rivers are frozen, in the anticipated area it is planned to use the snow-tractor in order to estimate the situation in the vicinities of the expected epicenter.
The second Vitim expedition looked for cosmogeneous substance particles, which could be preserved in the snow covering tops of the hills in the area where the meteorite had fallen down.
www.meteorites.com.au /odds&ends/russia.html   (2348 words)

  
 Sokol Tours: Destinations: Waterways: Lena River (Russia)
The mighty Lena River is the second biggest river in water volume in Russia (after the Yenisei) and 9-10th longest in the world, yet it is virtually unknown outside of Russia.
The river is navigable from about 150km from its source all the way to the Arctic sea, however regular services only ply the river from Ust-Kut city north to Yakutsk city.
Lena's main tributaries are: Vitim, Olyokma, Aldan, and the Vilyuy Rivers.
www.sokoltours.com /destination.phtml?m=510   (365 words)

  
 Britannicaindia.com: Britannica Browse
river and tributary of the Lena River in eastern Siberia, Russia.
It lies along the Terek River and on the northern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains.
It is centred on Vladimir city and lies east of Moscow in the basin of the Oka River.
www.britannicaindia.com /britannica_browse/v/v13.html   (1711 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The Evenks inhabit a huge territory of the Siberian taiga from the River Ob in the west to the Okhotsk Sea in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north, to Manchuria and Sakhalin in the south.
From the Baikal the Tungus began to migrate to the east, to the Amur and the coast of the Okhotsk Sea, to the north, to the river basin of the Lena, and to the northwest, to the river basin of the Yenisey.
When Russian peasants came, the Evenks left the large rivers, the Yenisey, the Lena, the Angara and the Amur, and moved further on.
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/evenks.shtml   (2223 words)

  
 Vitim bolide   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the night from 24 to 25 September 2002 on the Irkutsk region territory near the Vitim river took place a very rare nature phenomenon.
The downfall of the Vitim bolide is indeed a unique nature phenomenon.
It is supposed that in tour “Vitim bolide” the tourists will participate in complex scientific expedition of the RAS.
www.antran.ru /English/Products_eng/prod_Vitim.htm   (268 words)

  
 Vitim event at AllExperts
The Vitim event or Bodaybo event is believed to be an impact by a bolide or comet nucleus in the Vitim River basin.
The consequences of the Vitim event were strange for a normal meteorite fall.
Snow and water samples were analyzed and found to contain an abnormal amount of tritium, as well as radioactive isotopes of cobalt and caesium.
en.allexperts.com /e/v/vi/vitim_event.htm   (570 words)

  
 AllRefer Encyclopedia - CIS And Baltic Physical Geography Encyclopedia
• Bug, river, Ukraine, also known as Southern Bug
• Buh, river, E Europe, also known as Western Buh
• Buh, river, Ukraine, also known as Southern Buh
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/categories/cispg.html   (130 words)

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