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Balygychan

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Balygychan is a river in Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East. It is 352 kilometres (219 mi) long (400 km including Levy Balygychan), with a drainage basin of 17,600 square kilometres (6, 800 mi2). The river freezes in October and stays frozen until the end of May. Graylings, longnose suckers, pikes and whitefish are common in the Balygychan waters.

Flows through: Russia.

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

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