Tigil (river)
The Tigil (Russian: Тигиль) is a river on the western side of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It flows into the Sea of Okhotsk. It is 300 kilometres (190 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 17,800 square kilometres (6,900 sq mi). The Cossack Luka Morozko was the first European to reach it in 1696. The village Tigil lies on the river Tigil.
References
- ^ "Река Тигиль (Большой Тигиль) in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
- ^ Lantzeff, George V., and Richard A. Pierce (1973). Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750. Montreal: McGill-Queen's U.P.
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