Golygina

The Golygina (Russian: Голыгина)[1] is a river on the southwest coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It flows into the Sea of Okhotsk. It is 112 kilometres (70 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 2,100 square kilometres (810 sq mi).[2] A Russian expedition under Vladimir Atlasov first reached it in the last decade of the seventeenth century.[3]

Golygina
Location
CountryRussia
Physical characteristics
MouthSea of Okhotsk
  coordinates
51.9338°N 156.4893°E / 51.9338; 156.4893
Length112 km (70 mi)
Basin size2,100 km2 (810 sq mi)

References

  1. Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 104
  2. "Река Голыгино, Унканович, Прав. Унканович in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
  3. Lantzeff, George V., and Richard A. Pierce (1973). Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750. Montreal: McGill-Queen's U.P.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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