Dulgalakh
river in Russia
The Dulgalakh (Russian: Дулгалах; Yakut: Дулҕалаах, Dulğalaax) is a river in Yakutia, the left, western source river of the Yana. Its length is 507 km (315 mi) and its basin size 27,300 square kilometres (10,541 sq mi).
Course
The Dulgalakh rises on the central Verkhoyansk Range, south of the southern slopes of the Arkachan Plateau. It flows through Kobyaysky and Verkhoyansky districts. Above Verkhoyansk it merges with the Sartang forming the Yana.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1264793. Authority coordinates are 67.464, 133.248. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dulgalakh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.