The Bureya ( Russian : Бурея ) is a south-flowing, left tributary of the Amur river in Russia . It is 623 kilometres (387 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 70,700 square kilometres (27,300 sq mi). Its name comes from the Evenk word birija , meaning river.
11-752: The Bureya is formed from the junction of the Pravaya (right) Bureya and the Levaya (left) Bureya. Its basin is bounded in the west by the Turan Range and the river Zeya , to the south by the Amur , to the east by the Bureya Range , the rivers Urmi and Amgun , and to the north by the Ezop Range and several rivers that flow northeastwards into the Sea of Okhotsk . There are no cities on
22-464: A massive look, with rounded mountaintops. The range runs in a roughly NNE/SSW direction for about 300 kilometres (190 mi), and its northeastern part is deeply dissected by river valleys. To the north the mountain chain connects with the Ezop Range (Езоп) and to the west and the southwest lies the Zeya-Bureya Lowland . The Bureya reservoir is located to the south. The highest point of
33-616: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Turan Range The Turan Range ( Russian : Хребет Тура̀на ) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia . Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation . The range was formerly a remote area, first explored by Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz during the East Siberian Expedition of 1855. It
44-531: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bureya reservoir The Bureya Dam (locally referred to as Bureyskaya , Russian : Бурейская ГЭС ) is a hydroelectric dam on the Bureya River in the Russian Far East . Bureya hydroelectric power station was built by Bureyagesstroy . Construction started in 1976, but was halted until 1999. In 1999, RAO UES restarted the project. The dam
55-672: The Turan is the 1,806 metres (5,925 ft) high Middle Nanaki (Средний Нанаки) located near the northeastern end of the range. The Turan Range divides the catchment area of the Selemdzha River (a tributary of the Zeya River ) to the west, and the Bureya River (a tributary of the Amur River ) to the east. The Tashina River and the Selemdzha tributaries Ulma and Byssa , have their sources in
66-461: The landslide. The blockade of the river might be removed by explosions or air raids of the Russian army. This, however, involves the risk of a torrent. This Khabarovsk Krai location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Amur Oblast location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in the Russian Far East
77-459: The range. The slopes of the range are covered by conifer forests, such as larch , fir and spruce up to altitudes ranging between 700 metres (2,300 ft) and 900 metres (3,000 ft). Dwarf Siberian pine shrub grows in the higher elevations. The range is part of the original habitat of the Amur cat . This Amur Oblast location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Khabarovsk Krai location article
88-627: The river, the largest settlements on the river are Novy Urgal on the Baikal Amur Mainline and, Novobureysky and Bureya , both on the Trans-Siberian Railway . The Tyrma is a left tributary that crosses the railway south from Novy Urgal at the town of Tyrma. The Chegdomyn coal fields are north of Novy Urgal. The Bureya hydro power plant holds back middle stream of the river and mitigates extremal surge events during summer rainy seasons. The counter-regulating Nizhne-Bureiskaya HPP
99-509: Was built in 2017 and is located downstream of the Bureiskaya HPP. M58 highway (Russia) crosses it on a bridge. The river was blocked by a landslide in December 2018 on a width of about 600 to 800 meters and a height of 80 to 160 meters. Initial reports have speculated that the landslide was caused by a meteor impact. Meanwhile, however, an earthquake is considered as the most likely cause for
110-471: Was completed and the first unit was launched in 2003. The construction of the whole complex was completed in 2009. The reservoir reached its specified level during the summer-autumn monsoon season of 2009. It was accompanied with first use of spillways during planned tests. Despite the fact that all primary construction works on power station was completed, it was officially commenced for exploitation by government commission in 2011. Therefore, officially,
121-531: Was mapped by Arseniy Usoltsev together with geological engineer Pyotr Gorlov in 1958. A railway tunnel of the Baikal–Amur Mainline was built across the range. The Turan is a range in northeastern Siberia, located in the southeastern end of Amur Oblast and the southwestern side of Khabarovsk Krai. It is part of the Yankan - Tukuringra - Soktakhan - Dzhagdy group of mountain ranges. Its ridges have
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