The Taui (), also known as Kava () for part of its course, is a river in Khabarovsk Krai and Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East. It has a drainage basin of .1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet D-8
The river is a spawning ground for salmon and is part of the Magadan Nature Reserve. Its last stretch is navigable.
Course The Taui river, as the Kava, is formed at an elevation of at the confluence of rivers Rasava and Lozovaya flowing from the Kheidzhan Range, Upper Kolyma Highlands.Taui - Water of Russia
The Taui flows first southeastwards and then roughly eastwards along the Kava-Taui Plain (Кава-Тауйская равнина), a wide floodplain.Карта Кава-Тауйская равнина. Фото из космоса In its last stretch it enters an area of wetlands. Finally it flows into the Amakhton Bay, part of the Taui Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk. Its mouth lies west of the Arman lagoon and just southwest of the mouth of the Yana.Google Earth The river freezes before mid October and stays frozen until mid May.
The Kheidzhan Range separates the Taui basin from the Inya basin to the west. The main tributary of the Taui is the long Chyolomdzha (Чёломджа) that joins it in its lower course from the left.
See also List of rivers of Russia References
External links Floating Tours Down The Rivers of Magadan Region Kolyma - Modern Guidebook to Magadan Oblast