Moma River

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Location of the Moma in the catchment area of the Indigirka

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The Moma (Russian Мома, Yakut. Муома / Muoma ) is a 406 km long right tributary of the Indigirka in the Sakha Republic in the Russian Far East. Named after her is the Momagebirge north of its valley, the Ulus Moma to which their valley belongs.

The Moma is produced in about 700 m altitude in the valley between Tscherskigebirge ( Ulachan - Tschistai Crest) in the southwest and Momagebirge in the northeast of several smaller headwaters. Then flows in a north-westerly to westerly direction the Moma Selennjach Valley between Tscherskigebirge and named after the Moma Momagebirge until it ends just south of the Arctic Circle in the Indigirka ( in 192 m height).

The catchment area of ​​the Moma comprises 30,200 km ². In estuaries near the river to 250 meters wide and 2.5 meters deep; The flow rate is 1.6 m / s The main tributaries are right Taryn Jurjach (length 88 km) and from left Tirechtjach (160 km), Buordach (119 km) and Erikit (184 km).

The Moma freezes from late September / early October to late May / early June.

Lower and middle reaches of the Moma are rich in rocky rapids, the river branches out here in the many arms. The river is not navigable.

At its entire length, the Moma flows through the circuit area of ​​Ulus named after her Moma (Russian Момский улус, Yakut. Муома улууһа ) of the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia). At the mouth of Moma is the Ulusverwaltungszentrum Chonuu, at the headwaters of the village Sassyr.

Swell

• S. E. Mostachow et al. Jakutskaja ASSR. Yakutsk, 1980 ( Russian)