The Rassokha (,Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ , Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 313 also Россоха; ) is a river in the northeastern part of Yakutia, Russia. It is the major tributary of the Alazeya.Google Earth
Geography The river is long. The area of its basin is .
The Rassokha is formed by the confluence of the rivers Ilin-Yuryakh and Arga-Yuryakh in the Kolyma Lowland. The original sources of the uppermost river in the network are in the Ulakhan-Sis Range. The Rassokha flows across the Middle Kolyma District and the Lower Kolyma District in an area marked by permafrost, with numerous swamps and lakes. Finally it joins the left bank of the Alazeya from its mouth.Rossokha - Water (in Russian)
The Rassokha has 145 tributaries that are longer than and in its basin there are 7,442 lakes with a total area of .
The river freezes in late September through early October and stays icebound until the end of May.
Fauna The forest-tundra of the Rassokha basin, together with the Kondakov Plateau and the Suor Uyata and the Ulakhan-Tas, is part of the migration corridor of the Sundrun reindeer population.Ivan Sivtsev, The Sundrun population of wild reindeer, The Ninth North American Caribou Workshop, Kuujjuaq, Québec, Canada, .
See also List of rivers of Russia
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