Uda (Selenga)

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Bridge across the river Uda in the city of Ulan-Ude

The Uda (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx) is a river in the Buryat Republic, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Selenga, which it meets near the city Ulan-Ude. Its length is Script error: No such module "convert"., and it has a drainage basin of Script error: No such module "convert"..[1]

The Uda basin lies in the Tuguro-Chumikanskiy region. The word Uda is derived from the Yakut word üüt, meaning "milk". The name was conferred on the river owing to a nearby milk-colored lake.[2]

Fish

The Uda is a prime habitat for the pink, chum, red, and coho salmons. Other fish species found in the Uda include the Siberian taimen, two forms of lenok, and Amur grayling. The river is especially important as it remains one of the last strongholds of taimen, which have dwindled in other Siberian rivers. Taimens grow to huge sizes here; specimens weighing Script error: No such module "convert". have been caught here.[2]

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Valley of the Uda river near the village of Khorinsk the first of January

See also

References

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