#ob river

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Lake Kanas in the Altay Mountains, Xinjiang, China. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Kanas.jpg

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Novosibirsk, Russia

Yevgeny Popov in a Santa Claus costume paddleboards on the Ob River

Photograph: Kirill Kukhmar/Tass

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Ob River in western Siberia (Russia).  The last photo shows the river delta.

The Ob River is the seventh-longest river in the world, and the westernmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean.  It forms in the south where the Biya and Katun Rivers meet, and flows north, north-west, and then north from there.

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Ob River (Siberia, Russia).

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The Ob River Valley in Siberia (September 2016).

The Ob River, westernmost of the three great Siberian rivers, begins in the Altai Mountains, and flows north and west for over 4000km, ending in the Kara Sea.The environmentally rich river valley includes forests, meadows, wetlands and agricultural land.  Broad floodplains lying next to the river are particularly rich, but often flooded when the winter's snow and ice melts each year.  Over 170 species of birds nest in the floodplains, and about 50 species of fish live can be found in the river, including several species of sturgeon.

The largest tributary to the Ob River is the Irtysh River, which flows southwards from the Mongolian Altai Mountains in Xinjiang (China) to meet the Ob at the town of Khanty-Mansiysk.  The Ob-Irtysh river system forms a large drainage basin in Asia, encompassing most of Western Siberia and the Altai Mountains.

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Юная Обь, едва-едва после слияния

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(via Oil Fields Along the Ob River : Image of the Day)

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Floating Ice by Vladimir Melnikov