What is Kolyma River?
[[File:Колыма.jpg|thumb|Kolyma river in [[Siberia]], [[Russia]].]] The '''Kolyma River''' is a [[river]] in northeastern [[Siberia]], [[Russia]]. It flows through parts of the [[Sakha Republic]], [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug]], and [[Magadan Oblast]]. The Kolyma river starts where the Kulu and Ayan-Yuryakh rivers meet in the Okhotsk-Kolyma [[Upland and lowland|Upland]]. It then flows south in the Upper Kolyma [[Highland|Highlands]] and north in the Kolyma [[Lowland]], a flat area with many [[Lake|lakes]]. Finally, it empties into the Kolyma Gulf of the [[East Siberian Sea]]. The river is frozen for about 250 days each year, from [[October]] to early [[June]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Kolyma Tales|last=Shalamov|first=Varlam Tikhonovich|date=1994|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-018695-6|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Магаданский заповедник, заповедник, субъект федерации Магаданская область|url=https://tochka-na-karte.ru/Attractions/353-Magadanskij-zapovednik.html|access-date=2024-01-14|website=tochka-na-karte.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AR7xAwAAQBAJ&q=kolyma+etymology&pg=PA19|title=Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis Vol. 127 (2010)|last=Mańczak-Wohlfeld|first=Elżbieta|date=2010-09-01|publisher=Wydawnictwo UJ|isbn=978-83-233-3027-1|language=en}}</ref> The Kolyma river is 2,129 kilometers (1,323 miles) long, and its [[River basin|basin]] covers 647,000 square kilometers (250,000 square miles).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Государственный водный реестр: водоток Колыма (пр. Каменная Колыма)|url=https://textual.ru/gvr/index.php?card=264248|access-date=2024-01-14|website=textual.ru}}</ref> The river's average discharge at Kolymskoye is 3,254 cubic meters per second, with a high of 26,201 cubic meters per second in [[June]] 1985 and a low of 30.6 cubic meters per second in [[April]] 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kolyma At Kolymskoye|url=https://www.r-arcticnet.sr.unh.edu/v4.0/ViewPoint.pl?Point=5952|access-date=2024-01-14|website=www.r-arcticnet.sr.unh.edu