Pyasina

River that flows into the Kara Sea

70°03′52″N 88°03′51″E / 70.0645°N 88.0643°E / 70.0645; 88.0643 • elevation28 m (92 ft) MouthKara Sea, Arctic Ocean

• location

Pyasina Bay

• coordinates

73°54′00″N 87°02′50″E / 73.90000°N 87.04722°E / 73.90000; 87.04722Length818 km (508 mi)Basin size182,000 km² (70,000 sq mi)Discharge • average2,550 m³/s (90,000 cu ft/s) Basin featuresTributaries • leftAgapa, Mokoritto, Pura • rightChernaya, Dudypta, Yangoda, Tareya, Binyuda

The Pyasina (Russian: Пясина) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The river is 818 kilometres (508 mi) long, and its basin covers 182,000 square kilometres (70,000 sq mi).^[1] The Pyasina River originates in Lake Pyasino and flows into the Pyasino Gulf of the Kara Sea. There are more than 60,000 lakes in the basin of the Pyasina covering a total area of 10,450 square kilometres (4,030 sq mi). The river freezes up in late September or early October and stays under the ice until June. It is connected to the river Chetyrekh through its right distributary Staritsa.

History

The Dvina merchant Kondratiy Kurochkin reached the mouth of the Pyasina in 1610.^[2] In 1614, an ostrog was built on the river to collect yasak from the natives.^[2] In 1935, before the Dudinka-Norilsk railway had been built, the river Pyasina and Lake Pyasino were used to deliver cargo to the site of the future city of Norilsk.^[3]

Taimyr reindeer herd

The calving grounds of the Taimyr reindeer herd, a migrating tundra reindeer (R.t. sibiricus), the largest reindeer herd in the world,^[4]^[5] is along the right bank of the Pyasina and at the bend of the middle flow of the Agapa.^[6]^: 336

References

^ "Река ПЯСИНА in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
^ ^a ^b 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)
^ По рельсам истории Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine ("Rolling on the rails of history"), Zapolyarnaya Pravda, No. 109 (28.07.2007)
^ Russell, D.E.; Gunn, A. (20 November 2013). "Migratory Tundra Rangifer". NOAA Arctic Research Program. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Kolpashikov, L.; Makhailov, V.; Russell, D. (2014). "The role of harvest, predators and socio-political environment in the dynamics of the Taimyr wild reindeer herd with some lessons for North America". Ecology and Society.
^ Baskin, Leonid M. (1986), "Differences in the ecology and behaviour of reindeer populations in the USSR", Rangifer, Special Issue, 6 (1): 333–340, doi:10.7557/2.6.2.667, retrieved 7 January 2015