The Shangina (Russian: Шангина ; Yakut : Шангин , Şangin ) is a river in Yakutia ( Sakha Republic ), Russia . It has a length of 344 kilometres (214 mi) and a drainage basin of 5,750 square kilometres (2,220 sq mi).
6-628: It is a right tributary of the Indigirka, flowing across the Middle Kolyma and Aby districts. The river usually freezes in early October and stays frozen until late May or early June. In the summer of 1870 the Shangina was explored by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia. After he charted the Suor-Uyata and Ulakhan-Sis ranges of
12-518: Is an administrative and municipal district ( raion , or ulus ), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic , Russia. It is located in the north of the republic and borders with Verkhnekolymsky District in the south, Abyysky District in the west, Allaikhovsky District in the northwest, Nizhnekolymsky District in the north, Bilibinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in the east, and with Srednekansky District of Magadan Oblast in
18-691: The East Siberian Lowlands , Maydell reached the Indigirka . Going about 100 km (62 mi) upriver he found out that the Ulakhan-Sis was separated from the Alazeya Plateau to the south by the roughly 50 km (31 mi) wide plain of the Shangina. The Shangina river begins in the northern part of the Alazeya Plateau . It heads first roughly eastwards then descends into in a wide floodplain where it heads northwestwards. There are many lakes in
24-611: The district include the Kolyma , the Alazeya and the Rossokha with the Arga-Yuryakh . There are many lakes, the largest of which are Lakes Pavylon and Balyma . Mount Chubukulakh is located in the district. Average January temperature is −38 °C (−36 °F) and average July temperature is +12 °C (54 °F). Annual precipitation ranges from 150–200 millimeters (5.9–7.9 in) in
30-461: The middle and lower part of the basin. Finally the Shangina joins the right bank of the Indigirka 420 km (260 mi) from its mouth. There are no inhabited places in its course. Its main tributary is the 74 kilometres (46 mi) long Ogustakh on the right. Middle Kolyma District Srednekolymsky District (Russian: Среднеколы́мский улу́с ; Yakut : Орто Халыма улууһа , Orto Xalıma uluuha , IPA: [oɾto xalɯma uluːha] )
36-420: The southeast. The area of the district is 125,200 square kilometers (48,300 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Srednekolymsk . Population: 7,897 ( 2010 Census ) ; 8,353 ( 2002 Census ); 9,441 ( 1989 Soviet census ) . The population of Srednekolymsk accounts for 44.6% of the district's total population. The landscape of the district is mostly flat. The main rivers in
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