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PECHORA

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 32 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PECHORA  , a See also:

river of N . See also:Russia, rising in the Urals, almost on 62° N., in the See also:government of See also:Perm . It flows W. for a See also:short distance, then turns N. and maintains that direction up to about 66° 20' N . It then describes a See also:double See also:loop, to N. and to S., and after that resumes its N. course, finally emptying into the Gulf of Pechora, situated between the See also:White See also:Sea and the Kara Sea . Its See also:total length is 970 M . At its mouth it forms an elongated See also:delta . Although frozen in its upper reaches for 190 days in the See also:year and for 138 days in its See also:lower reaches, it is navigable throughout the greater See also:part of its course . Its drainage See also:basin covers an See also:area of 127,200 sq. m . The See also:principal tributaries are, on the right, the Ilych and the Usa, and on the See also:left the Izhma, the Tsylma and the Sula .

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