Buyunda

 ( Rivers Of Magadan Oblast ) 

The Buyunda () is a river in Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East. It is a right tributary of the Kolyma, with a length of and a drainage basin of .Google Earth

Together with the Seymchan that flows roughly southwards on the facing bank of the Kolyma basin, the Buyunda forms the Seymchan-Buyunda Depression, which limits the Upper Kolyma Highlands from the east.

The name of the Buyunda originated in the Evenki languages language, meaning "where there are wild deer".

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Course The Buyunda is the seventh longest tributary of the Kolyma. It has its sources in the Kilgan Massif and heads roughly northwards across the mountainous area of the Maymandzhin Range. After entering the depression it meanders strongly across a wide and marshy floodplain, its main channel dividing into branches. Finally the river joins the right bank of the Kolyma from its mouth. Its confluence with the Kolyma is below the Ust-Srednekan Hydroelectric Station. Seymchan settlement and the mouth of river Seymchan are located further downstream on the facing bank.

The river is frozen between late October and late May. The main tributaries of the Buyunda are the Bolshaya, Kupka, and lower Elgen from the right and the upper Elgen, Talaya, Khurchan, and Gerba from the left. There are over 1,550 lakes in the basin of the river.

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Fauna

Cobitis, Thymallus, Coregonus, burbot, and lenok are the main fish species found in the waters of the Buyunda.

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See also

• List of rivers of Russia

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External links

• Picture of the Buyunda
• Kolyma - Modern Guidebook to Magadan Oblast
• Detail of the Buyunda fan and the fault trace across it
• ResearchGate - The Ulakhan fault in the Magadan and Yakutsk regions

Categories: Rivers Of Magadan Oblast

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