Okhota
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Etymology
While the name of the river literally means "hunt" in Russian, it is the corruption of the Even word окат (okat) meaning "river".[3][4]
Course
The Okhota begins in the Suntar-Khayata Range at about Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level at the junction of the Left Okhota and Right Okhota rivers. These are about Script error: No such module "convert". long and start from an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert".. First it flows as a mountain stream. Further downstream it flows to the west of the Kukhtuy and east of the Urak river. It heads southwards in a wide valley between the Yudoma and Kukhtuy Ranges until its mouth in the Sea of Okhotsk near Novoye Ustye, west of the port town of Okhotsk. The lower reaches of the river are navigable for small craft. The Okhota is frozen from early November to May.[1] Snow cover in the valley can last until late June.
Flora and fauna
The banks of the river are mostly forested. There is an important salmon run. Salvelinus neiva is a char species found in the river basin.[5]
History
In the fur hunting trade, since there are no easy portages to the Okhota, the Russians usually approached Okhotsk from the Urak or the Ulya to the west. The only main route that used the Okhota ran from the "corner" of the Yudoma over the Script error: No such module "convert". Okhotsk Portage to the Okhota about 100 kilometres north of its mouth. There was some pasture along the river but not enough to keep many Yakutsk pack-horses over winter. Larch was cut and floated down the river for shipbuilding. Around 1750 there were 37 peasant families and from 1735 a few Yakut cattlemen.[6]
See also
References
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- ↑ a b Охота (река в Хабаровском крае), (tr. "Okhota (river in the Khabarovsk Territory): Definition of "(literally) Hunting (river in the Khabarovsk Territory)" in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia") Great Soviet Encyclopedia, accessed 4 November 2022
- ↑ Template:GVR (tr. "River Okhota (in the upper reaches of the Lev. Okhota)")
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- ↑ F.K Komarov, Словарь русской транскрипции эвенкийских и эвенских терминов и слов, встречающихся в географических названиях Сибири и Дальнего Востока, 1967
- ↑ Fishbase - Salvelinus neiva
- ↑ James R Gibson, Feeding the Russian Fur Trade, 1969
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