Turukhan River
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Position of Turukhan ( Турухан ) in the catchment area of the Yenisei
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The Turukhan (Russian Турухан ) is a 639 km long left tributary of the Yenisei River in West Siberia (Russia, Asia).
Course
The Turukhan entfließt in about 135 meters a small lake on the northeast edge of the West Siberian Plain. It flows initially in a northwesterly direction, several other small lake, so the Turuchanskoje Lake, then turns sharply to the south and flows through the lowlands further in predominantly south to easterly directions to its mouth in the left tributary of Bolshoi crowd of the Yenisei. The mouth is located about 20 kilometers north-west, named after the river settlement Turuchansk, but is situated at the mouth of the Lower Tunguska on the opposite bank of Yenisei.
The most important tributaries of the Turukhan are right Ussomtschik, Large Bludnaja ( Bolschaja Bludnaja ), Upper Baicha ( Verkhnaya Baicha ) and Lower Baicha ( Nischnjaja Baicha ) and left the Makovskaya.
The Turukhan flows along its entire length to the northwest of the Krasnoyarsk region.
Hydrographic
The catchment area of 38,500 km ² comprises Turukhan. The river is in estuary near almost 400 meters wide and three meters deep; the flow rate is in this case 0.3 m / s
The average discharge is in estuary near 371 m³ / s, near the settlement of Yanov Stan ( ⊙ 65.97877684.324846 ) on the middle reaches, 277 km above the mouth still 108 m³ / s at a minimum of 4.9 m³ / s in March and a maximum of 727 m³ / s in June.
The Turukhan freezes until the first half of June, between October and the end of May.
Economy and infrastructure
The Turukhan is navigable from the settlement Yanov Stan to 288 kilometers.
The territory traversed by very sparsely populated. Riverside addition to the aforementioned Yanov Stan exist only the two villages Farkowo and Staroturuchansk on the lower reaches. Therefore lack of any infrastructure completely.
End of the 1940s began with the construction of the Arctic Circle railway that cross the river near Yanov Stan and from there along the left bank in an easterly direction at about 100 kilometers up to now abandoned settlement Kostjor should follow. The construction of this road section was with the exception of individual objects, such as the Turuchanbrücke at Yanov Stan, at the time of the freeze in 1953 progressed relatively far.