The Alazeya (; ) is a river in the northeastern part of Sakha Republic, Russia which flows into the Arctic between the basins of the larger Indigirka to the west and the Kolyma River to the east.
Mount Kisilyakh-Tas is a notable kigilyakh site on the right bank of the Alazeya River at .
Geography
The river is long. The area of its
Drainage basin is .
The Alazeya is formed at the confluence of the Nelkan and Kadylchan rivers in the slopes of the
Alazeya Plateau. It crosses roughly northwards through the tundra meandering among the flat, marshy areas of the
Kolyma Lowland, part of the greater East Siberian Lowland. Finally the Alazeya drains into the
Kolyma Bay of the East Siberian Sea, close to
Logashkino. The river freezes in late September through early October and stays icebound until late May through early June. There are more than 24,000 lakes in its basin.
[Google Earth][ Алазея in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. ]
Tributaries
The biggest tributaries of the Alazeya are the long
Rassokha and long Buor-Yuryakh from the left,
as well as the long Sloboda River
and the long
Buor-Yuryakh from the right.
History
Dmitrii Zyryan was the first Russian to reach the Alazeya in 1641,
but did not found a permanent settlement.
See also
