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Pelym

The 486th longest river in the world

707 km

The Pelym or Bolshoy Pelym is a river in the far north of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Tavda, and is 707 kilometres (439 mi) long, with a drainage basin of 15,200 square kilometres (5, 900 mi2). The Pelym has its sources on the eastern slopes of the northern Ural Mountains and flows from there over wooded areas of the West Siberian Plain. The river is frozen over from October to April. It is navigable on the lower 245 kilometres (152 mi).

Flows through: Russia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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