The Penzhina (Russian: Пенжина; Koryak: Мыгыкивэем) is a river in Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It is 713 kilometres (443 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 73,500 square kilometres (28,400 sq mi).[1]
The name "Penzhina" originated the Chukchi word "Pennyn", meaning "place of attack". In Koryak it is known as "Wegykiveem"(Мыгыкивэем), meaning "stormy river".[2]
^"Река Пенжина in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
^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 .
The Penzhina (Russian: Пенжина; Koryak: Мыгыкивэем) is a river in Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It is 713 kilometres (443 mi) long, and has a drainage basin...
Penzhina Bay (Russian: Пе́нжинская губа́, Penzhinskaya guba) is a long and narrow bay off the northwestern coast of Kamchatka, Russia. Penzhina Bay is...
Stadukhin went south and followed the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk from Penzhina Bay to Okhotsk. From about 1667 there were reports of a Kamchatka River...
in the Republic of Adygea and in Krasnodar Krai Belaya (Penzhina), a tributary of the Penzhina River in Kamchatka Krai Belaya (Angara), a tributary of...
that flow south toward Kamchatka. At least one of them had followed the Penzhina river to the Sea of Okhotsk. In 1696 he sent Luka Morozko south to explore...
The Gorlo (Russian: Горло), the narrowest part of Penzhina Bay, separates it into two parts. Its northwestern and northeastern points are Capes Opasnyy...
Tylele volcano (2,234 m (7,329 ft)). The longest rivers are the Vyvenka, Penzhina, Talovka, Lakhacha, Apuka, Kamchatka, and Ukelayat. The largest freshwater...
from the Kolyma; Motora was killed and Stadukhin went south to find the Penzhina River. Dezhnyov found a walrus rookery at the mouth of the Anadyr and ultimately...
Amur, flows into the Strait of Tartary, the largest drain Penzhina, flows into the Penzhina Bay, the second largest drain Okhota Ulya Taui Bay: Arman...
Мыс Поворотный, Mys Povorotnyy) is a headland on the southwest side of Penzhina Bay, the east arm of Shelikhov Gulf, in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk...
Also, in parts of the northern Magadan Oblast near the Shelikhov Gulf and Penzhina Bay, stocks might persist but remain poorly studied. In 1967, the Michigan...
300-kilometre long Penzhina Bay and the route north to Anadyrsk. The east side of Shelikov Bay is the Kamchatka Peninsula. From the head of Penzhina Bay back to...
kilometres (4,900 sq mi). It is the second most important tributary of the Penzhina after the Belaya. The name of the river comes from the Koryak "yalan" (Ыӄлан)...
of far northeast Siberia, one of the first to reach the Kolyma, Anadyr, Penzhina and Gizhiga Rivers and the northern Sea of Okhotsk. He was a Pomor, probably...
Okhotsk and branches into two main arms, Gizhigin Bay to the west and Penzhina Bay to the east. Its southwest corner is formed by the P'yagin Peninsula...
stretches from WSW to ENE between the upper Penzhina valley to the north and the basin of the Oklan, a Penzhina right tributary, to the south. The Kolyma...
village Also Kuvshinovka (river), a tributary of Oklan in the basin of the Penzhina See also Kuvshinovo This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
Arctic. Its basin is surrounded by: (west) branches of the Kolyma, (south) Penzhina and others that flow south, (east) Anadyr and (northeast) Bolshoy Anyuy...
into the Sea of Okhotsk and are shorter: Ola, Yama, Gizhiga, Paren and Penzhina. Mountains in Severo-Evensky District View of the Omsukchan Range from...
is 2.2 km long and 1.4 km wide. It is located off the eastern coast of Penzhina Bay, separated from the continental shore by a 6.8 km wide sound. Administratively...
Opasnyy (Russian: Мыс Опасный, Mys Opasnyy) is a very prominent headland in Penzhina Bay, the right arm of Shelikhov Gulf, in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk...
"wintering place Penzhina") was a fortified city in Russia between 1679 and 1804 on the river Oklan (then Chajachla or Aklan), into which the Penzhina flows. The...
Gulf of the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk. It lies on the eastern side of Penzhina Bay. It has a serrated summit. It is within the Tigilsky District of Kamchatka...
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