| Kelimyar | |
| Other Name: | Келимяр / Кэлимээр |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 71.4622°N 125.6939°W |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 72.0319°N 123.7889°W |
| Length: | 254km (158miles) (196km (122miles)) |
| Basin Size: | 4050km2 |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Sakha Republic#Russia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Mouth location in Yakutia, Russia |
The Kelimyar (Russian: Келимяр Yakut: Кэлимээр, Kelimeer) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a tributary of the Olenyok with a length of 254km (158miles) and a drainage basin area of 4050km2.
The river flows north of the Arctic Circle across a desolate area of Bulunsky District devoid of settlements. The nearest inhabited places are Taymylyr, located downstream from its confluence with the Olenyok, and Sklad (Tyumyati), located a little upstream.
In 1875, during his third Siberian expedition, Alexander Chekanovsky intended to "go along the banks of the Lena to the mouth and, if possible, then go to the mouth of the Olenyok from the Laptev Sea."
From a barge Chekanovsky navigated the Lena River for a distance of about 1200km (700miles) from Yakutsk to the mouth to the Eyekit river, its last major left tributary. He explored inland from the deep and wide lower course of the Eyekit, and then along the rocky and mountainous watershed area lying between the Lena and the Olenyok, descending along the Kelimyar river to the Olenyok. In this way he discovered the roughly 350km (220miles) long ridge that bears his name. From the Kelimyar he traced the course of the Olenyok to its mouth.
The Kelimyar is a right tributary of the Olenyok. Its sources are in a small lake of the western slopes of the Chekanovsky Ridge. It flows first in a roughly southern direction in its upper course, then it bends northwestwards heading in that direction within a low floodplain with marshes and many small lakes. It meanders strongly in stretches until it joins the right bank of the Olenyok river 186km (116miles) upstream of its mouth.[1] [2] [3]
Owing to the harshness of the climate the river is frozen between early October and early June.[4]
The longest tributaries of the Kelimyar are the 51km (32miles) long Muoykanda-Yurege and the 44km (27miles) long Khotugu-Muoykanda-Yurege from the right, as well as the 70km (40miles) long Nyoyokyu, the 66km (41miles) long Olongdo, the 39km (24miles) long Mene, the 37km (23miles) long Amyday, the 36km (22miles) long Bulungkaan-Yurege and the 30km (20miles) long Kystyk-Khaya-Yurege from the left.
