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The Aldan is a major river in Yakutia (a region in eastern Russia) that flows through one of the country's remote and sparsely populated areas. It is significant as a major waterway in Russia's far east and plays an important role in the geography and ecology of the Siberian landscape.
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- Elevation
- 71
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- Река Алдан в Томмоте.JPG
- Length
- 2273
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- Aldan River
- watershed area
- 729000
- discharge
- 5060
- native label
- Алдан
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The Aldan (Sakha and Russian: Алдан) is the second-longest right tributary of the Lena in the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia. The river is 2,273 kilometres (1,412 mi) long, of which around 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) is navigable. It has a drainage basin of 729,000 square kilometres (281,000 sq mi).
The river was part of the River Route to Okhotsk. In 1639 Ivan Moskvitin ascended the rivers Aldan and Maya and crossed to the Ulya to reach the Sea of Okhotsk.
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