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Usolka River
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The Usolka River () is an Asian river of the Russian Siberia, a tributary of the Taséyeva River, in turn a tributary of the Andara River and east of the Yeniséi River. Its length is 356 km and its basin drains an area of 10,800 km ² (similar to that of countries such as Jamaica or Lebanon or greater than Cyprus).
Administratively, the river runs through the Krasnoyarsk Krai of the Russian Federation.
Geography
The Usolka River is born and runs along the Andara Plateau, and ends up in the Taséyeva River on its left side, a short river that downstream flows very soon into the Andara River.
Like all Siberian rivers, it suffers long periods of frost (six months a year, from November to the end of April / early May) and extensive soil areas are always frozen in depth (permafrost). As the melting season comes, as the areas are first thawed to the south, large areas near the banks.
External links
(in Russian) Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
Rivers of the Yeniséi basin
Ríos del Krai de Krasnoyarsk