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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

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

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