Bely Iyus
river in Khakassia, Russia
The Bely Iyus (ru: Белый Июс, romanized: Bely Iyus, lit. 'White Iyus') is a river in the Republic of Khakassia in Russia. It is the right source river of the Chulym. It is 224 kilometres (139 mi) long, with a drainage basin of 5,370 square kilometres (2,070 mi2).
Etymology
Also known as Bjeloj Ijus, Bieloi Yious, Khakas: Ах-Ӱӱс, romanized: Ax-Üüs, lit. 'White River'.
An analysis of the toponymy of the Khakass-Minusinsk basin and the areas adjacent to it indicates that, along with the stratified Turkic toponyms of a later origin, toponyms clarified from the Ugric and Samoyedic languages dominated here.
The inhabitants of the Urals call the rivers flowing to the West White rivers; those that flow to the East or to Siberia, in Black rivers.
Description
The Bely Iyus has its sources on the eastern slopes of the Kuznetsk Alatau, at an elevation of 712 metres (2,336 ft), The sources are small mountain lake in a spur of the Kuznetsk Alatau, in the high Karlykhan Range (up to 6000 feet). Source of Bely Iyus is mainly snow. In the upper reaches (to the village of Efremkino) of the Bely Iyus it is called Pikhterek and has the character of a fast mountain river, but not deep and in summer there are fords everywhere. In the middle reaches it flows among the hilly steppe spaces of the western outskirts of the Chulym-Yenisei basin, strongly meandering channel, swampy valley.
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