Alazeya

{{Infobox river | name = Alazeya | other_name = Алазея / Алаһыай | image = Река Алазея рядом с селом Аргахтах с высоты птичьего полёта.jpg | image_size = | image_caption = Aerial photograph of Alazeya. | source1 = Confluence of the Nelkan and Kadylchan rivers | source1_location = [[Alazeya Plateau]] | source1_coordinates = {{Coord|67.744|147.833|format=dms|display=i}} | source1_elevation = {{convert|116|m|abbr=on}} | mouth_location = [[East Siberian Sea]] | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|70.8618|N|153.6795|E|source:dewiki_region:RU-SA_type:river|format=dms|display=it}} | mouth_elevation = {{convert|0|m|abbr=on}} | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = [[Russia]] | subdivision_type2 = Location | subdivision_name2 = [[Sakha Republic|Yakutia]] | length = {{convert|1590|km|abbr=on}} (total) | discharge1_avg = {{convert|320|m3/s|abbr=on}} | basin_size = {{convert|64,700|km2|abbr=on}} | pushpin_map = Russia Sakha Republic | pushpin_map_size = | pushpin_map_caption= Mouth location in [[Sakha Republic|Yakutia]], Russia }} The '''Alazeya''' ({{langx|ru|Алазея|}}; {{langx|sah|Алаһыай|translit=Alahıay}}) is a river in the northeastern part of [[Sakha Republic|Yakutia]], [[Russia]] which flows into the Arctic between the basins of the larger [[Indigirka]] to the west and the [[Kolyma River|Kolyma]] to the east.

Mount [[Kisilyakh-Tas]] is a notable [[kigilyakh]] site on the right bank of the Alazeya River at {{coord|69|42|N|155|0|E|}}.<ref name="farb">{{Cite web|url=https://farbitis.ru/en/physical-geography/types-of-weathering/|title=Types of weathering|website=farbitis.ru}}</ref>

==Geography== The river is {{convert|1590|km|mi}} long. The area of its [[Drainage basin|basin]] is {{convert|64700|km2|mi2}}.<ref name="gvr">{{Cite web|url=https://textual.ru/gvr/index.php?card=263737|title=Государственный водный реестр: река АЛАЗЕЯ|website=textual.ru}}</ref> 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.<ref name="GЕ">[[Google Earth]]</ref><ref name=bse>[http://bse.sci-lib.com/article009617.html Алазея] in the [[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]]. {{in lang|ru}}</ref><ref name="STM">{{cite web|url=https://maps.vlasenko.net/smtm1000/r-55_56.jpg|title=R-55_56 Topographic Chart (in Russian)|access-date=25 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="STM2">{{cite web|url=https://maps.vlasenko.net/smtm1000/q-55_56.jpg|title=Q-55_56 Topographic Chart (in Russian)|access-date=25 May 2022}}</ref>

[[File:Map of basin of Alazeya.png|thumb|left|A sketch of the Alazeya basin.]] ===Tributaries=== The biggest tributaries of the Alazeya are the {{convert|790|km|abbr=on}} long [[Rassokha]] and {{convert|131|km|abbr=on}} long [[Buor-Yuryakh (left Alazeya tributary)|Buor-Yuryakh]] from the left,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://textual.ru/gvr/index.php?card=263812|title=Государственный водный реестр: река Буор-Юрэх|website=textual.ru}}</ref> as well as the {{convert|168|km|abbr=on}} long Sloboda River<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://textual.ru/gvr/index.php?card=263623|title=Государственный водный реестр: река Слобода|website=textual.ru}}</ref> and the {{convert|244|km|abbr=on}} long [[Buor-Yuryakh]] from the right.<ref name="gvr"/>

==History==

Dmitrii Zyryan was the first Russian to reach the Alazeya in 1641,<ref name= Lantzeff>{{cite book | last = Lantzeff | first = George V. |author2=Richard A. Pierce | title = Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750 | publisher = McGill-Queen's University Press | year = 1973 | location = Montreal }}</ref> but did not found a permanent settlement.

==See also== *[[List of rivers of Russia]] ==References== {{Reflist}}

{{Portal bar|Russia}} [[Category:Rivers of the Sakha Republic]] [[Category:East Siberian Lowland]] [[Category:Alazeya basin| ]]