The Ukelayat (; Koryak: Вуквылгаят) is a river in Kamchatka Krai, Russia. The length of the river is and the area of its drainage basin is .
The name of the river comes from the Koryak vukvylgayat (вуквылгаят), meaning 'rock, fall'.Leontiev V.V., Novikova K.A. Toponymic dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovshchikov; FEB AS USSR . North-East complex. Research Institute. Lab. archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magadan . book. publishing house, 1989. - S. 290. - 456 p. — ISBN 5-7581-0044-7 .
Course The Ukelayat has its source in the Koryak Highlands. It is fed by glaciers of the northern slopes of the adjoining ranges. It flows roughly eastwards within a valley bound by the Pikas Range to the north and the Ukelayat Range to the south. The river divides into channels along its middle and lower course. Its mouth is in the small Dezhnyov Bay of the Bering Sea.Google EarthWater of Russia - Корякское нагорье (ледниковая система)
Its main tributary is the long Pikasvayam, joining it from the left about halfway through its course.
Flora and fauna The river basin is characterized by tundra vegetation, including mosses, lichens, dwarf shrubs, and sedges.V. Yu. Neshataeva, Vegetation cover of the North of the Kamchatka Okrug (Kamchatsky Krai) and its geobotanical zoning // Ecology and geography of plants and plant communities: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific Conference. - Yekaterinburg, 2018. - April 16. — ISBN 978-5-7741-0341-6
See also Bering tundra List of rivers of Russia
References
External links The Penzhina-West Kamchatka folded zone and the Ukelayat-Sredinnyi block in the structure of the Koryak Highland and Kamchatka Kamchatka Krai travel guide