Maly Anyuy River

In the middle reaches of the Little Anjui at Bilibino, near the confluence of the Great Keperwejem

Catchment area of ​​the Kolyma and the course of the Little Anjui ( Maly Anjui )

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The Little Anjui (Russian Малый Анюй / Maly Anjui ) is a 738 km long right tributary of the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia above the Arctic Circle (Russia, Asia). Shortly before the mouth of the river unites with the Great Anjui to Anjui.

Course

The Little Anjui entfließt to 588 m which is situated on the Anadyr Plateau Lake Bolschoye Werchneje (Russian for Big Upper Lake), the Gytgylwegytgyn lakes ( tschukschisch Гытгыльвэгытгын ). It flows through the low mountain range west of the Chukotka Peninsula in predominantly westerly direction to its confluence with the Great Anjui to Anjui on the eastern edge of the Kolyma lowland. The Anjui opens after only eight kilometers in the lower reaches of the Kolyma. Great and Little Anjui are already 15 kilometers upstream ( south ) from its confluence connected by a narrow arm.

Important tributaries from the right Big Keperwejem ( Bolshoi Keperwejem ) and Pogynden.

The Little Anjui flows almost the entire course on the territory of the Autonomous Okrug of the Chukchi until near the mouth it reaches the extreme north- east of the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia).

Hydrographic

The catchment area of ​​49,800 km ² comprises little Anjui. The river is in the mouth area about 400 feet wide and two feet deep; The flow rate is 0.4 m / s

The average discharge of the middle reaches of the measuring point Ostrownoje, above the mouth of the largest tributary Pogynden, still 181 m³ / s, with a monthly minimum of 0.3 m³ / s in April and a maximum of 898 m³ / s in June.

The Little Anjui freezes for up to nine months a year, where he can freeze in the upper and middle reaches to the bottom. From late May to June, he leads floods.

Economy and infrastructure

The Little Anjui is navigable for 102 kilometers to the village Anjuisk.

The -carrying area is inhabited overall extremely thin. Riverside, however, there are several settlements ( Ilirnei, Keperwejem, Ostrownoje, Anjuisk ), also at Creek Big Keperwejem the small town Bilibino with the northernmost nuclear power plant in the world to be cooling water is taken from the river. In particular, in the context of Bilibino there are some roads.

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