The Badyarikha (Russian: Бадяриха; Yakut: Бадьаариха, Bacaariixa) is a river in Yakutia in Russia, a right tributary of the Indigirka. The length of the Badyarikha is 545 kilometres (339 mi) and the area of its drainage basin is 12,200 square kilometres (4,700 sq mi).[1] Its sources are located on the northern slopes of the Moma Range[2]

Badyarikha
Indigirka Basin
Map
Location
CountryRussia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationMoma Range
MouthIndigirka
 • coordinates
68°20′39″N 146°01′02″E / 68.34417°N 146.01722°E / 68.34417; 146.01722
Length545 km (339 mi)
Basin size12,200 km2 (4,700 sq mi)
Basin features
ProgressionIndigirkaEast Siberian Sea

The Badyarikha flows on the eastern side of the Aby Lowland. Its main tributaries are the rivers Ogorokha, Orto-Tirekhtyakh, and Anty.

Paleontology

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A diverse mammoth fauna, including a mummy of Homotherium latidens cub, one of the few Eurasian records of this species from the Upper Pleistocene, was found in the Yedoma horizon at the Badyarikhskoe locality on this river.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Река Бадяриха in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
  2. ^ Momsky Khrebet / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017.
  3. ^ A. V. Lopatin; M. V. Sotnikova; A. I. Klimovsky; A. V. Lavrov; A. V. Protopopov; D. O. Gimranov; E. V. Parkhomchuk (2024-11-14). "Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia". Scientific Reports. 14 (28016). doi:10.1038/s41598-024-79546-1.