The Iomrautvaam (; ) is a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The length of the river is and the area of is drainage basin .

The Iomrautvaam is the longest tributary of the Khatyrka river.

Course The Iomrautvaam has its source in the Komeutyuyam Range of the Koryak Highlands. It flows in a roughly northeastern direction in the northern section of the range. Finally it meets the right bank of the Khatyrka from its mouth, close to the northeastern end of the ridge.Google EarthWater of Russia - Хатырка

Khatyrka meteorite The Khatyrka meteorite, a unique-type of meteoriteCosmic sleuthing: An origin story for a really weird meteorite fell in the area of the Iomrautvaam river basin at . It was found during an expedition to Chukotka in the summer of 2011 buried in a 7,000-year-old layer of dirt and was named Khatyrka meteorite.Khatyrka meteorite, Iomrautvaam - Mindat.orgЗвизда Т. В., Мануйлов А. А., Василенко А. М. Отчет о геологической съемке масштаба 1:50000 и поисках месторождений полезных ископаемых в бассейне нижнего течения р. Иомраутваам на территории листов Р-60-38-В, Г; 39-В. Анадырь, 1977. 221 с.

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 Khatyrkite List of rivers of Russia

References

External links Astronomy.com - An old meteor yields a new surprise: a never-before-seen material Collisions in outer space produced an icosahedral phase in the Khatyrka meteorite never observed previously in the laboratory Khatyrka meteorite found to have third quasicrystal The Penzhina-West Kamchatka folded zone and the Ukelayat-Sredinnyi block in the structure of the Koryak Highland and Kamchatka