Everything about Lena River totally explained
The
Lena (
Russian: Ле́на) in
Siberia is the 10th longest
river in the world and has the seventh largest
watershed. Rising at the height of at its source in the
Baikal Mountains south of the
Central Siberian Plateau, west of
Lake Baikal, the Lena flows northeast, being joined by the
Kirenga River and the
Vitim River. From
Yakutsk it enters the lowlands, joined by the
Olyokma River and flows north until joined by its right-hand affluent the
Aldan River. The
Verkhoyansk Range deflects it to the north-west; then, after receiving its most important left-hand tributary, the
Vilyuy River, it makes its way nearly due north to the
Laptev Sea, a division of the
Arctic Ocean, emptying south-west of the
New Siberian Islands by a delta in area, and traversed by seven principal branches, the most important being
Bykov, farthest east.
The total length of the river is estimated at 4,400 km (2,800
m.). The area of the Lena river basin is calculated at . Gold is washed out of the sands of the Vitim and the Olyokma, and
mammoth tusks have been dug out of the delta. The Lena has the unusual distinction of
appearing to be the longest river in the world when viewed on a map using a
Mercator projection, the most common method of displaying the spherical earth on a flat surface, due to that projection's tendency to exaggerate the size of areas near the poles (the Amazon and Nile both cross the equator.)
History
The majority of researchers believe that the name of the river Lena has been acquired from the original
Even-Evenk name
Elyu-Ene, which means "the Large River".
Baron Eduard Von Toll, accompanied by Alexander von Bunge, carried out an expedition to the Lena delta area and the islands of New Siberia on behalf of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1885. They explored the Lena delta with its multitude of arms that flow towards the Polar sea. Then In spring 1886 they investigated the
New Siberian Islands and the
Yana River and its tributaries. During one year and two days the expedition covered 25,000 km, of which 4,200 km were up rivers, carrying out geodesic surveys en route.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov is believed taken his alias,
Lenin, from the river Lena. It has been suggested that this was done after the events leading to the
Lena Goldfields Massacre of workers by the
tsarist Russian Army in April of
1912, although the adoption of his
pseudonym predates this event. Another suggestion is that the adoption comes about as a result of a personal feud with
Georgi Plekhanov, who called himself
Volgin after the
Volga river. The Lena is much stronger than and flows in the opposite direction as the Volga, thus it was be an obvious choice; Ulyanov, however, had no disagreement with Plekhanov when he first began to use the name.
Lena Delta
At the end of the Lena River there's a large delta that's about 400 km (250 miles) wide. The delta is frozen
tundra for about 7 months of the year, but in May transforms the region into a lush
wetland for the next few months. Part of the area is protected as the
Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve.
The Lena delta divides into a multitude of flat islands. The most important are (from West to East): Chychas Aryta, Petrushka, Sagastyr, Samakh Ary Diyete, Turkan Bel'keydere, Sasyllakh Ary, Kolkhoztakh Bel'keydere, Grigoriy Diyelyakh Bel'kee, Nerpa Uolun Aryta, Misha Bel'keydere, Atakhtay Bel'kedere, Arangastakh, Urdiuk Pastakh Bel'key, Agys Past' Aryta, Dallalakh Island, Otto Ary, Ullakhan Ary and Orto Ues Aryta.
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