Om (river)

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Template:Short description Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other The Om (Template:Langx, Template:Langx[1]) is a river in the south of the Western Siberian plains in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Irtysh. It is Template:Convert long, and has a drainage basin of Template:Convert.[2]

The name is probably from the word om "quiet" in the language of the Baraba Tatars.[3]

Course

The Om rises in the Vasyugan Swamp at the border of Novosibirsk and Tomsk oblasts. It flows mainly across the Baraba Lowland of the West Siberian Plain.[4] The city of Omsk is situated at the confluence of Om and Irtysh, and Ust-Tarka at the confluence of the Om and the Tarka rivers. The main tributaries are the Icha, Kama and Tartas.[4]

References

  1. Известия Всесоюзного географического общества. 1959 г. С. 253.
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  3. E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (Moscow, 1998), p. 310.
  4. a b Омь, Great Soviet Encyclopedia

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