{{Otheruses3|Anadyr}}

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'''Anadyr''' ({{lang-ru|Ана́дырь}}) is a [[river]] in the extreme northeast of [[Siberia]], [[Russia]].

The river, taking its rise in the [[Stanovoi Mountains]] as the Ivashki or Ivachno, about 67°N latitude and 173°E longitude, flows through [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug]], at first southwest and then east, and enters the [[Gulf of Anadyr]] of the [[Bering Sea]] after a course of about 500 miles.

The country through which it passes is thinly populated, and is dominated by [[tundra]], which is rich with a variety of plant life. Much of the region is folded in rugged mountains, and is a beautiful landscape. For nine months of the year the ground is covered with snow, and the frozen rivers become navigable roads. [[Reindeer]], upon which the inhabitants subsist, were once found in considerable numbers, but the domestic reindeer population has collapsed dramatically since the reorganization and privatization of state-run collective farms beginning in [[1992]]. As herds of domestic reindeer have declined, herds of wild [[caribou]] have increased.

There are ten species of [[salmon]] inhabiting the Anadyr river basin.
Every year, on the last Sunday in April, there is an ice fishing competition in the frozen estuarine waters of the Anadyr River's mouth. This festival is locally known as '''Korfest'''.


==See also==
*[[Operation Anadyr]]

==References==
* {{1911}}
* Tourist and environmental information: [http://www.chukotka.org/en/tourism/about_tourism/kind_of_tourism/]
* Salmon: [http://www.wildsalmoncenter.org/pops/AnadyrRiver.php]
* Snezhnoye, a village on the Anadyr' River: [http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/snezhnoe.html]

[[Category:Rivers of Russia]]
[[Category: Rivers of Chukotka]]
[[Category:Chukotka Autonomous Okrug]]
[[Category:Bering Sea]]

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