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    The Vitim (Russian: Витим; Evenki: Витым, Witym; Yakut: Виитим, Viitim [local pronunciation]; Buryat and Mongolian: Витим, Vitim) is a major tributary...
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  • Vitim (Russian: Витим) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Vitim, Sakha Republic, an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Lensky...
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    Vitim (Russian: Вити́м; Yakut: Битиим, Bitiim) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Lensky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located...
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  • Vitim is a Russian project of a stationary long-range over-the-horizon radar of the UHF wave range by NIIDAR. Positioned as a means of continuous monitoring...
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  • The Vitim sculpin (Cyphocottus megalops) is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. This sculpin is endemic...
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    northeast across the Lena-Angara Plateau, being joined by the Kirenga, Vitim and Olyokma. From Yakutsk it enters the Central Yakutian Lowland and flows...
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  • Vitim Airport is a public use airport built in Vitim, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia during World War II for the Alaska-Siberian (ALSIB) air route used...
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  • river in the area of Telemba village. The Konda is a right tributary of the Vitim. Its sources are in the small Khudan Range, west of Chita. It flows across...
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    Vitim Plateau is a plateau in Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. The plateau is sparsely populated, the main settlements are Romanovka and Bagdarin...
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    areas of the Kalarsky District. The Kuanda is a right tributary of the Vitim. Its sources are in lake Leprindokan at the feet of the Kalar Range, one...
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  • The Angara-Vitim batholith is group of plutons in the eastern Siberia, just east of Lake Baikal. The batholith formed in the Devonian–Early Carboniferous...
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    range varies between 20 kilometres (12 mi) and 120 kilometres (75 mi). The Vitim Plateau lies to the north and the Borshchovochny Range to the east of the...
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  • territory from Lake Baikal to the Yablonovy Mountains. Vitim-Olyokma Dauriya - the basin of the Vitim and Olyokma rivers (the northern part of the Trans-Baikal...
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  • Vitim (Russian: Витим) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Muysky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2010. Vitim is...
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    lower course is at the eastern end of the Vitim Plateau. Finally, at the border with Buryatia it meets the Vitim 1,083 kilometres (673 mi) from its mouth...
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    Vitim Nature Reserve (Russian: Витимский заповедник) (also Vitimsky) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) in the mountains 400 km northeast...
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    Pacific Ocean was a plateau and not a plain. This discovery of the Patom and Vitim Plateaus won him a gold medal from the Russian Geographical Society and...
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    occurred on April 24, 1948, when the plane lost control and collided with the Vitim River near Bodaybo, resulting in the deaths of 28 people. The crew, commanded...
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    Bodaybo (section Vitim event)
    oblast. The town is located in the Patom Highlands, on the right bank of the Vitim River at its confluence with the Bodaybo River. Besides Bodaybo, some of...
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    rivers Lena, Vitim and Chara. To the north the valley of the Lena separates the highlands from the Lena Plateau and to the southwest the Vitim River, a right...
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    Vitim-Nercha/Baunt-Talocha (subdialects: Baunt, Talocha, Tungukochan, Nercha) Eastern (sibilant-spirant) Vitim-Olyokma (subdialects: Barguzin, Vitim/Kalar...
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  • attack a temple in Gandhinagar, India, killing 30 people. September 25 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact, occurs in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. September...
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    Cherendey (left) Biryuk (left) Nyuya (in Nyuya) Derba Ura Peleduy Vitim (in Vitim) Kalar Kalakan Tsipa Amalat Tsipikan Bambuyka Muya Kuanda Kalakan Mamakan...
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    first explored by Peter Kropotkin and Ivan Polyakov during the 1866 Olyokma-Vitim expedition of the East Siberian branch of the Imperial Russian Geographical...
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    are a mountainous area between the Patom Highlands to the north and the Vitim Plateau to the south. To the northeast they border with the Olyokma-Chara...
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    Sayano-Shushenski Sokhondo Stolby Taymyr Tigirekskiy Tunguska Ubsunur Hollow Vitim Yugansky Far East Bastak Bolon Bolshekhekhtsirsky Botcha Bureya Dalnevostochny...
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    Mexico United States 62. Northern Salado 2,010 1,249 Paraná Argentina 63. Vitim 1,978 1,229 Lena Russia 64. Tigris 1,950 1,212 Shatt al-Arab Turkey, Iraq...
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    to 400 mm (5.9 to 15.7 in). In 2013, an individual was observed on the Vitim Plateau. The Pallas's cat inhabits the semi-desert steppe of Ikh Nartiin...
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  • Vitim River, near Bodaybo, Irkutsk Oblast 58°16′N 113°27′E / 58.27°N 113.45°E / 58.27; 113.45 0.2–2 kilotonnes of TNT (0.84–8.37 TJ) 30 km Vitim event...
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  • 20 – Aeroflot Flight B-2, an Avia 14, crashed shortly after takeoff from Vitim Airport, Russia due to pilot and ATC errors; of the 50 on board, only 1...
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