The Vilyuy River is the longest tributary of the Lena in eastern Siberia. The river is approximately 2,650 km long, of which around 1,450 km is navigable. A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... The Lena River ( Russian: Ле́на) in Siberia is the 10th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest watershed. ... Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ...

The Vilyuy's source lies near Ekonda, in the north of the Central Siberian Plateau. It then flows south east, through a lake and the towns of Cherynshevskiy, Suntar, Nyurba and Verkhnevilyuysk before joining the Lena near Sangar. The word source has more than one meaning: // Information Source Edit: A software program for developers in which you can edit your source code regardless of the computer language. ... The Central Siberian Plateau (ru: Среднесиби́рское плоского́рье) is a part of Siberia. ... A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. ...

The river is known for the diamond mines established along it since the 1950s. A scattering of round-brilliant cut diamonds shows off the many reflecting facets. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning...