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Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are the Volga (which is the longest river in Europe), Pechora, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dnieper (flowing through Russia, then Belarus and Ukraine and into the Black Sea) and the Western Dvina (flowing ...
The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East and is the easternmost river of the three great rivers of Siberia, including the River Ob and the River Yenisey, which flow into the Arctic Ocean. [ note 1 ] The Lena river is 4,294 km (2,668 mi) long and has a capacious drainage basin of 2,490,000 km 2 (960,000 sq mi); thus the Lena is the eleventh ...
The Don (Russian: Дон, romanized: don) is the fifth-longest river in Europe. Flowing from Central Russia to the Sea of Azov in Southern Russia, it is one of Russia's largest rivers and played an important role for traders from the Byzantine Empire.
The river was called Δάϊκος (Daïkos) by Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD. [4] [5] Yulian Kulakovsky reads this as Turkic "Jajyk" or "Яик" and on this basis identifies the Huns as Turkic speakers. [6] However, Gerard Clauson disputes that the name could be of Turkic origin as early as the 2nd century, and instead attributes it to ...
It is also Europe's largest river in terms of average discharge at delta – between 8,000 m 3 /s (280,000 cu ft/s) and 8,500 m 3 /s (300,000 cu ft/s) – and of drainage basin. It is widely regarded as the national river of Russia. The hypothetical old Russian state, the Rus' Khaganate, arose along the Volga c. 830 AD. [8]
The Irtysh / ɜːr ˈ t ɪ ʃ, ˈ ɪər t ɪ ʃ / [note 1] is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob and is also the longest tributary river in the world. The river's source lies in the Mongolian Altai in Dzungaria (the northern part of Xinjiang, China) close to the border with Mongolia.
However, the path along the river's deepest point is fractal in the same way that the coastline is. Even when detailed maps are available, the length measurement is not always clear. A river may have multiple channels, or anabranches. The length may depend on whether the center or the edge of the river is measured.
The 558 kilometres (347 mi)-long Sukhona River flows east and joins the basin of the west-flowing Vychegda (1,130 kilometres (700 mi) long). The combined river flows northwest into the White Sea, which it joins near the city of Arkhangelsk. Looking more closely, the Sukhona flows east and meets the north-flowing Yug River at Veliky