Synya

The Synya () is a river in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The river is long — from the source of the Mokraya Synya at its head— and has a catchment area of .

The Synya flows across the Shuryshkarsky District. It is navigable for , between its mouth in the Ob and Ovgort village.

Course The Synya is a left tributary of the Ob river. It has its sources at the confluence of the long Sukhaya Synya and the long Mokraya Synya, which flow from the eastern slopes of the Polar Urals. The river flows initially southwards, then bends and flows eastwards, within a wide floodplain located at the northwestern end of the West Siberian Plain. Finally it meets the left bank of the Malaya Ob, an arm of the Ob, about from its mouth.Google Earth

Tributaries The main tributaries of the Synya are the long Lesmiyogan (Лесмиёган), the long Nesyogan (Несъёган) and the long Bolshoy Tukshin (Большой Тукшин) from the right. The river is fed predominantly by snow and is frozen between October and May.Сыня; Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. — Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)

Fauna The main fish species in the river are omul, peled, broad whitefish, sig, and tugun.

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