What are the largest rivers in Russia?
On the territory of Russia there is a hugethe number of rivers and rivulets is about two and a half million! Most of them are small. But there are those who deserve to take the corresponding place in the rating under the title "The largest rivers of Russia". So...
Northern Dvina
In the tenth place - the Northern Dvina, entering the White Sea basin. Its name, meaning "double river", it received because it was formed by the merger of two rivers - the South and Sukhan.
The Northern Dvina flows through the Arkhangelsk andVolgograd region of Russia. Its length is 744 kilometers. And the pool area - 357 thousand square meters. km. It was on the Northern Dvina that Russian shipbuilding was born.
Indigirka and Khatanga
The ninth and eighth place in the ranking are the largest rivers in Russia, such as Indigirka and Khatanga, respectively.
Indigirka flows through the lands of Yakutia (the Republic of Sakha). The water flow starts on the Khalkan ridge, where two rivers merge: Kuidusana and Omekona, and then it gets to the East Siberian Sea.
Khatanga flows in the Krasnoyarsk Territory of Russia, flows into the Khatan Bay of the Laptev Sea. It also formed in a place where the rivers Kotui and Heta merge.
The area of the Indigirka river basin reaches 360thousand square meters. km, and Khatanga - 364 thousand. To date, these rivers are one of the main water transport routes of North-Eastern Russia. Here, fishing and rafting are popular.
Don
In seventh place - Don. He bypasses all the major rivers of Russia on the southern elevation. It begins in the Tula region, flows through the territories of the Voronezh, Lipetsk, Rostov and Volgograd regions. It flows into the Azov Sea (Taganrog Bay).
The name of the river was given to the Iranian peoples, who once settled in the territories of the Northern Black Sea Coast. From the Iranian Don it is translated as "the river".
The course of the water artery is divided into threeof the site: Upper Don (from the source and to the place where the Tikhaya Pine River flows into it), the Middle (up to the city of Kalach-na-Donu) and the Lower (from Tsimlyansk reservoir and to the river mouth).
The length of the river inspires respect - about 1870 km. And its area is 422 thousand square kilometers.
Kolyma
The next river in our list (6th place) isKolyma. It surpasses all the major rivers in Russia, located in the Magadan region. Its length reaches 2513 km, and the area is 645 thousand square meters. km. Kolyma is formed in the Okhotsk-Kolyma Highlands, by merging the rivers of Kula and Ayan-Yuryakh. The mouth of the water body under consideration is the East Siberian Sea, more precisely, the Kolyma Bay.
The Kolyma was discovered by the Cossacks aftersuch large rivers of Russia as Indigirka (in 1638) and Alazeya (1639) were discovered. In 1644 on its banks the Cossack Michael Stadukhin founded the winter village of Nizhni-Kolyma and compiled the first information about the militant Chukchi from the North.
Volga
The fifth largest river is the Volga-Mother. It flows in the European part of Russia, and its lower sleeve captures the territory of Kazakhstan. The water artery originates from the key on the Valdai plateau (Tver region) and flows into the Caspian Sea.
By the area of the Volga basin,large rivers of the European part of Russia. By the length it takes the fourth place. The Volga is recognized as the largest in Europe and the largest river in the world (from those that flow into inland water bodies).
The length of the water flow reaches 3530 km, and the area - 1 361 000 sq. Km. km.
Cupid and Lena
The fourth and third places are respectively occupied by such large rivers of Russia as Amur and Lena.
Amur-father flows through the territory of threecountries (Mongolia, China and Russia). The name of the river originated from the Tungus-Manchu word "amar", which translates as "a big river". The area of the basin is over 1.8 million sq. M. km, and the length is 2824 km.
The source of Lena - in the Siberian mountains, the river flows throughthe territory of Yakutia, Krasnoyarsk, Zabaikalsky and Khabarovsk Territory, as well as the Republic of Buryatia, but falls into the Laptev Sea. Length - 4480 km, and the area - 1.5 million square meters. km, which gives it the right to be called the third river of Russia. Lena was discovered in the 17th century by the same Cossacks.
Yenisei
Yenisei to 90 thousand square meters. km exceeds Lena by area (its basin is 2,580,000 sq. km), and therefore takes the second place in the rating "The largest rivers of Russia".
The name of this object is from the Evenkithe words "Ionessi", which translates as "big water", or from the ancient Kyrgyz "Ene-Sai" - "river mother". Its mouth is in the Small Yenisei. It flows through the vast territories of Russia and Mongolia, and ends its journey in the Arctic Ocean. The total path of the water flow is 4287 kilometers. The Yenisei is the seventh largest river in the world.
Ob
And finally, the largest river in Russia is the Ob. It was formed in the place where the two rivers - Katun and Biya - merged. The length of the waterway reaches 5410 km, and the area - almost 3 million square meters. km! The Ob is situated on the lands of Western Siberia. The mouth of the river is the Obskaya Bay (the bay in the Kara Sea). The Ob is considered the second among the largest rivers in Asia. The first is the Chinese Yangtze.
All the tribes that have ever lived onbanks of the Ob River, gave it its name. So, Mansi and Khanty called her "Ace", which meant "a great river", and the Nenets - "Salya-Yam", in translation "a river river". In the language of the Selkups, the Ob sounded like "Eme," "Quai," or "Qui," which meant "a steep river."
This water body has a huge industrialand economic importance for the whole of Russia. It is here that they extract gas and oil. Most of all peat reserves in the CIS countries are stored in the Ob areas. In addition, there are the largest volumes of fish caught.
