Lena River
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| Lena River (Лена, Өлүөнэ) | |
| River | |
 Lena wattershed
| |
| Kintra | Roushie |
|---|---|
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Kirenga, Vilyuy |
| - right | Vitim, Olyokma, Aldan |
| Soorce | |
| - location | Baikal Muntains, Irkutsk Oblast, Roushie |
| - elevation | 1,640 m (5,381 ft) |
| Mooth | Lena Delta |
| - location | Arctic Ocean, Laptev Sea |
| Lenth | 4,472 km (2,779 mi) |
| Basin | 2,500,000 km2 (965,255 sq mi) |
| Discharge | for Laptev Sea[1] |
| - average | 16,871 m3/s (595,794 cu ft/s) |
| - max | 241,000 m3/s (8,510,835 cu ft/s) |
| - min | 366 m3/s (12,925 cu ft/s) |
The Lena (Roushie: Ле́на, IPA: [ˈlʲenə]; Sakha: Өлүөнэ, Ölüöne) is the eastrenmaist o the three great Siberie rivers that flaw intae the Arctic Ocean (the ither twa bein the Ob River an the Yenisei River). It is the 11t langest river in the warld an haes the 9t lairgest wattershed. It is the greatest river whose wattershed is entirely within Roushie territorial boondaries.
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- ↑ http://www.abratsev.narod.ru/biblio/sokolov/p1ch23b.html, Sokolov, Eastern Siberia // Hydrography of USSR. (in Russian)