The Lena River ( Russian (русский язык  listen?) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the group of Indo-European languages, and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic... Russian: Ле́на) in Siberian federal subjects of Russia Siberia ( Russian: Сиби́рь, common English transliterations: Sibir, Sibir; possibly from the Mongolian for the calm land) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. It extends eastward from the Ural Mountains to... Siberia is the 10th longest For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A waterfall on the Ova da Fedoz, Switzerland A river is a large natural waterway. It is a specific term in the vernacular for large streams, stream being the umbrella term used in the... river in the world and has the 9th largest watershed. Rising at the height of 1640 metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. It is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in an absolute vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. It is... m at its source in the Baikal Mountains south of the The Central Siberian Plateau (ru: Среднесиби́рское плоского́рье) is a part of Siberia. Area about 3.5 Mm2. The highest part is the Putorana Plateau... Central Siberian Plateau, 20 A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). It is approximately equal to 0.621 miles, 1094 yards or 3281 feet. Slang terms for kilometre include klick (sometimes spelt click or klik... km west of Lake Baikal The Yenisei River basin, Lake Baikal, and the cities of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk Lake Baikal (Russian: О́зеро Байка́л (Ozero Baykal)), a lake in southern Siberia, Russia, between Irkutsk Oblast on the northwest and Buryatia on... Lake Baikal, the Lena flows northeast, being joined by the Kirenga and the The Vitim River is a major tributary of the Lena River. It is 1,978 km long. Its source is east of Lake Baikal, from where it flows north through the Transbaykalian Mountains and the town of Bodaybo. Upstream of Bodaybo it is navigable to its confluence with the Lena... Vitim. From Yakutsk (Якутск) (pop. 187,000), 62° 2 N, 129° 44 E, capital of Sakha Republic, Russia, a major port on Lena river in eastern Siberia. It is also a highway center and has tanneries, sawmills, and brickworks. Yakutsk was founded in 1632. It has a... Yakutsk it enters the lowlands, joined by the The Olyokma River or Olekma River is a tributary of the Lena in eastern Siberia. The river is approximately 1,320 km long. The Olekma rises in the south of the Yablonovy Mountains, west of Mogocha. It flows north through remote terrain before joining the Lena near Olekminsk. Categories: Russia... Olyokma and flows north until joined by its right-hand affluent the The Aldan River is the second-longest tributary of the Lena River in eastern Siberia. The river is 2,273 km long, of which around 1,600 km is navigable. It rises in the Stanovoy Mountains south west of Neryungri, then north east past Aldan and through Tommot, Ust-Maya... Aldan. The Verkhoyansk Range, mountain chain, ca. 1000 km (600 m.) long, E Siberian Russia, in the Sakha Republic. It forms a vast arc along the Lena and Aldan rivers and rises to ca. 2,480 m (8,150 ft) in the south. There are coal, silver, lead, and zinc deposits. The... Verkhoyansk Range deflects it to the north-west; then, after receiving its most important left-hand tributary, the The Vilyuy River is a tributary of the Lena in eastern Siberia. The river is approximately 2,650 km long, of which around 1,450 km is navigable. The Vilyuys source lies near Ekonda, in the north of the Central Siberian Plateau. It then flows south east, through a... Viljuj, it makes its way nearly due north to the The Laptev Sea (Russian: мо́ре Ла́птевых) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the eastern coast of Siberia, Taimyr Peninsula, the Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands. Its northern boundary passes from... Laptev Sea, a division of the The Arctic Ocean, located mostly in the north polar region, is the smallest of the worlds five oceans, and the shallowest. Even though IHO recognizes it as an ocean, oceanographers may call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it as one of the mediterranean... Arctic Ocean, emptying south-west of the New Siberian Islands (Russian: Новосиби́рские острова́), an archipelago, located to the North of the East Siberian coast between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea north of the Sakha... New Siberian Islands by a delta 10,800m² in area, and traversed by seven principal branches, the most important being Bylov, farthest east.

At the mouth of the Lena River is a delta that is about 400 km (250 miles) wide. The delta is frozen In physical geography, tundra is an area where tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes from the Sami language (through Russian), meaning treeless plain. There are three types of tundra: arctic tundra, antarctic tundra, and alpine tundra. In all of these types... tundra for about 7 months of the year, but in May transforms the region into a lush A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. In physical geography, a wetland is an environment at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems...and truly aquatic systems...making them different from each yet highly dependent on both (Mitsch & Gosselink, 1986). In essence, wetlands are ecotones. Wetlands... wetland for the remainder of the year. Part of the area is protected as part of the Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve is located in the delta of Lena River in the far north of eastern Siberia. It has a total land area of 60,000 km². It protects large concentrations of birds, including swans, geese and ducks, loons, shorebirds, raptors and gulls. It is also an important... Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve.

The total length of the river is estimated at 4,400 km (2,800) A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. Today, one mile is mainly equal to about 1609 metres on land and 1852 metres at sea and in the air, but see below for the details. Current definitions The meanings of mile that are... m.). The area of the Lena river basin is calculated at 2,500,000 km² (805,000m²). Gold is washed out of the sands of the Vitim and the Olyokma, and This article is about the extinct mammal. For the town with this name, see Mammoth, Arizona. A mammoth is any of a number of an extinct genus of elephant, often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They inhabited the northern regions of the... 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 The Mercator projection of the world up to a latitude of 86° N and S The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection devised by Gerardus Mercator in 1569. Its Parallels and meridians are straight lines, and the unavoidable east-west stretching away from the equator is accompanied by 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.)

The majority of researchers believe that the name of the river Lena has been acquired from the original The Evenks (obsolete: Tungus) are a nomadic indigenous people, one of the Northern Indigenous Peoples (pop. 30,000 est.) of Siberia, Russia. The Evenki form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the Peoples Republic of China. Evenks of Russia The Evenks were formerly known as tungus... Even-Evenk name Elyu-Ene, which means "the Large River".

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) (April 22 (April 10 (O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was... Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov is believed to have named his alias after the river Lena - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ( Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин  listen?), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) ( April 22 (April 10 ( O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was... Lenin - after the events leading to the so-called Lena execution of workers by the Tsar ( Bulgarian цар, Russian царь,  listen?; often spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English), was the title used for the autocratic rulers of the First and Second Bulgarian Empires since 913, in Serbia in the middle of the 14th century... tsarist army in April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. April begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Aries and ends in the sign of Taurus. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation of Pisces... April of 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. Events January-March January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China. January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. January 17 - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the... 1912.

Original entry was from the NASA Earth Observatory is an online publication of NASA where the public can access satellite imagery and scientific information about our planet for free. It is focused on the climate and the environment. See also NASA Space exploration Satellite External links Official Web Site of NASA Official Web Site of... NASA Earth Observatory; [1] (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4895)

External links

• NASA Earth Observatory page on flooding on the Lena River (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4895)
• Information and a map of the Lena's watershed (http://earthtrends.wri.org/maps_spatial/maps_detail_static.cfm?map_select=360&theme=2)

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