Narym River

The Narym River is a river in the Eastern Kazakhstan, a tributary of the Irtysh River, originating at the junction of the ridges Narym and Sarymsakty of wetland formed by the mountain runoff streams. With its low headwaters and smooth clay-sandy bed, the width of the river valley at places extends to more than 20 km, in some places it narrows down to 25–250 m; the width of the river is 15–25 m, depth is from 0.5 to 2.5 m.

Before 1960, Narym flowed directly into the Irtysh River, at the mouth of the river was a village Ust-Narym. After 1960, with the construction of Bukhtarma reservoir that flooded surrounding settlements, the Narym empties into the Buhtarma Reservoir, at the mouth of the river lies village Ulken Narym auyly. Along the river are located towns Juldyz, Novoberezovka, and Maymyr.

According to the Chinese annals, the basin of the Narym river was a home of an eastern Hun tribe Ala-at, Tr. for "skewbald horse", called in the Chinese annals "He-la" and "Boma" ("skewbald horse"); from the Alat tribe originated one of the Eastern Hun Shanuys called Helog Tou, i.e. Alat Tou, most likely named after his maternal tribe. Modern descendents of the ancient Alats are Alats in the Altai, and Khalaches and Khalajes in the northern India and eastern section of the Iranian plateau. Under Arabicized name Khalajes, Alats are known to constitute one of the major tribes of the 5th- to 6th-century CE Hephthalites.^[1]

References

Source - Russian Wikipedia ru:Нарым (река)

Coordinates: 49°11′37″N 84°28′39″E / 49.19361°N 84.47750°E / 49.19361; 84.47750

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