The Vakunayka (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. It is a right hand tributary of the Chona, and is long, with a drainage basin of .
There are no permanent settlements by the Vakunayka. The Russian Geographical Society organized an expedition in 1853–55 to survey the orography, geology and population of the Vilyuy and Chona basins. Richard Maack. Materials provided by the project Rubrikon.
Course The river begins in the Central Siberian Plateau. It flows first westwards for a relatively short stretch, then it bends and heads roughly northwards across the middle part of the plateau, in the border area between Irkutsk Oblast and Yakutia. Parts of its floodplain are marshy. Finally the Vakunayka joins the right bank of the Chona from its mouth in the Vilyuy Reservoir. The river is fed by snow and rain and freezes between October and late May.Вакунайка — Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M, 1969-1978.
The main tributaries of the Vakunayka are the long Killemtine and the long Mukoki on the right.Google Earth
See also List of rivers of Russia
References
External links Geography - Yakutia Organized