Pyasina

 ( Rivers Of Krasnoyarsk Krai ) 

The Pyasina () is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The river is long, and its drainage basin covers . The Pyasina River originates in Lake Pyasino and flows into the Pyasino Gulf of the Kara Sea. There are more than 60,000  in the basin of the Pyasina covering a total area of . The river freezes up in late September or early October and stays under the ice until June. It is connected to the river Chetyrekh through its right distributary Staritsa.

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History The Northern Dvina merchant Kondratiy Kurochkin reached the mouth of the Pyasina in 1610. In 1614, an ostrog was built on the river to collect yasak from the natives. In 1935, before the Dudinka-Norilsk railway had been built, the river Pyasina and Lake Pyasino were used to deliver cargo to the site of the future city of Norilsk. По рельсам истории ("Rolling on the rails of history"), Zapolyarnaya Pravda, No. 109 (28.07.2007)

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Taimyr reindeer herd

The calving grounds of the Taimyr reindeer herd, a migrating tundra reindeer ( R.t. sibiricus), the largest reindeer herd in the world, is along the right bank of the Pyasina and at the bend of the middle flow of the Agapa.

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See also

• Ambarnaya, an inflow of Lake Pyasino
• List of rivers by discharge
• List of rivers of Russia

Categories: Rivers Of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Drainage Basins Of The Kara Sea, North Siberian Lowland

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