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Kolyma River

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Kolyma River

River, northeastern Siberia, eastern Russia. Rising in the Kolyma Mountains and emptying in the East Siberian Sea, it is 1,323 mi (2,129 km) long. It is navigable upstream to Verkhne-Kolymsk but is ice-free only from June to September. Under Joseph Stalin the goldfields of the upper Kolyma River valley held labour camps where more than one million prisoners died (1932–54).



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While in Siberia, the students and scientists will be based at the Northeast Science Station approximately 80 kilometers south of the Arctic Ocean on the Kolyma River, near Cherskiy.
The Omulev Mountains are located to the west of the Kolyma River and in the central part of the Chersky Mountain Range (Fig.
In modern language, the term describes a vast area from the Kolyma River in the Russian Far East to the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
 
 
 
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