Pyasina

{{Short description|River that flows into the Kara Sea}} {{Infobox river | name = Pyasina | native_name ={{native name|ru|Пясина}} | name_other = | name_etymology =  | image = Pyasina.png | image_size = | image_caption = Basin of the Pyasina | map = | map_size = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_size = | pushpin_map_caption=  | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Russia | subdivision_type2 = | subdivision_name2 = | subdivision_type3 = Region | subdivision_name3 = Krasnoyarsk Krai | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name4 = | subdivision_type5 = City | subdivision_name5 = Ust-Tareya  | length_km = 818 | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = {{convert|2550|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}} | discharge1_max =  | source1 = Lake Pyasino | source1_location = | source1_coordinates= {{coord|70.0645|88.0643|display=inline}} | source1_elevation = {{convert|28|m|abbr=on}} | mouth = Kara Sea, Arctic Ocean | mouth_location = Pyasina Bay | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|73|54|00|N|87|02|50|E|display=inline,title}} | mouth_elevation = | progression = | river_system = | basin_size_km2 = 182000 | tributaries_left = Agapa, Mokoritto, Pura | tributaries_right = Chernaya, Dudypta, Yangoda, Tareya, Binyuda | custom_label = | custom_data = | extra = }}

The '''Pyasina''' ({{langx|ru|Пясина}}) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The river is {{convert|818|km|mi}} long, and its basin covers {{convert|182000|km2|mi2}}.<ref name=gvr>{{GVR|225377|Река ПЯСИНА}}</ref> The Pyasina River originates in Lake Pyasino and flows into the Pyasino Gulf of the Kara Sea. There are more than 60,000 lakes in the basin of the Pyasina covering a total area of {{convert|10450|km2}}. 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.

== History == The Dvina merchant Kondratiy Kurochkin reached the mouth of the Pyasina in 1610.<ref name= Lantzeff>{{cite book | last = Lantzeff | first = George V., and Richard A. Pierce | title = Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750 | publisher = McGill-Queen's U.P. | year = 1973 | location = Montreal }}</ref> In 1614, an ostrog was built on the river to collect yasak from the natives.<ref name=Lantzeff/> 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.<ref>[http://gazetazp.ru/cgi-bin/showissue.pl?n=2007/109&i=5 По рельсам истории] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929144501/http://gazetazp.ru/cgi-bin/showissue.pl?n=2007%2F109&i=5 |date=2007-09-29 }} ("Rolling on the rails of history"), ''Zapolyarnaya Pravda'', No. 109 (28.07.2007)</ref>

==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,<ref name=NOAA2013>{{Cite journal|title=Migratory Tundra Rangifer |first1=D.E. |last1=Russell|first2=A. |last2=Gunn|institution=NOAA Arctic Research Program|date=20 November 2013 }}</ref><ref name=Kolpashikov>{{cite journal|last1=Kolpashikov|first1=L.|first2=V. |last2=Makhailov|first3=D. |last3=Russell|date=2014|title=The role of harvest, predators and socio-political environment in the dynamics of the Taimyr wild reindeer herd with some lessons for North America|journal=Ecology and Society}}</ref> is along the right bank of the Pyasina and at the bend of the middle flow of the Agapa.<ref name="Baskin_1986">{{citation |title=Differences in the ecology and behaviour of reindeer populations in the USSR |first=Leonid M. |last=Baskin |url=http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/viewFile/667/634 |access-date=7 January 2015 |journal=Rangifer |series=Special Issue |number=1 |year=1986 |volume=6 |pages=333–340 |doi=10.7557/2.6.2.667 |doi-access=free }}</ref>{{rp|336}}

==See also== *Ambarnaya, an inflow of Lake Pyasino *List of rivers by discharge *List of rivers of Russia

== References == {{Reflist}}

Category:Rivers of Krasnoyarsk Krai Category:Drainage basins of the Kara Sea Category:North Siberian Lowland