GEOGRAPHIC MEMORANDUM SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE SVOBODNYY AREA

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• Publication Date: January 13, 1959
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SPECIFIC GEO: TRA PHIC ASPECTS OF THE SVOBODIv XY AREA.
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SUPPLEMENTARY GEOGRAI" TIC INI OF THE OI,ENEGORSK AREA
13 Janwtry 1959
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SPECIFIC C WP IC AS i 3 ;: Tom; SVO DI `MI PI ML
about 375 miles, (600 )ri1 tnt:tcra to tt .ac t;hcaut is the e:S.ty of
Khabavovsk~ ieso than ? t.i .: 5s ( ?a3.] =tc ro) to the sc x;iseaat is
the navigable 9;-yFz ivs r i j r t ?i.t at ::ry of the A ~ Twenty 4.1e8
~t>E ,:Df Cie Ak,l~a, it the vicinity of Urr ! 1. .na
(32 mete east
Wbe F b a Area, ao t+.e:'i. ?d for Is tits. n:._y by. r i ,fall (69 percent) and
secondarily by aelt :ng sr.ocz (2265 percent,)'f;. the flow :icy subject to a
high tie ~ee of eascn :.l_ s azmla.:4 m- ria a. are two leigli ' tee pe e
spring and late a aaa ie; ? T ho opritag peak occurs in av
accompanying th n alt:irg of ersow in tha taper river bast.,,.
June
By the
end of June or early Jv,4 the :n .ter le re ...subsides aoveiff--at.
second and xi ;.awn Brio o:' h-a3 ih wato-c ,pccurs in August or early
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September. Du:ring the peals pet' loch, be: river may rise V2 to 20 feet
in h or 5 yeara.
am. frequent. In 1953, 48b water flooded gurazhevka, a suburb Of
6vtho3nyy. Floods' of serious iroport'Long, however, occur 'only once
'minter is the Period of m.nimum a'lcw. with the lowest level
usually reached in March. The mini flow of winter is at the
of 105 cubic m'tero per secox;d,. at et ccvo and at the rate of 325 mubic
xnetera per second et the mouth of the Zeya.
Ground water provides only 5 perk eft of the annual flow of the
are the r :sul t ~f ',heavy cold.-air
but in places may be as Coop as 313O
1n az d re ors towards the coast,
Z ya. Ground eater in quaiixtit + Is gex rally available at depths
having a miner?al content
than. l gram pe.- liter.
The crater in relatively f'r:!sh,
calcium. carbonate
The'cll=te of theAea has a sit ar3.y expressed monsoonal
character. VeIL ,y65 rcent of t jn tual. precipitation falls d ~ing
the 3 summer mouthe of June, Jv-]r, end'. August. In contrast to the
short, warm, ar d humid s I,m aers,p wiutara, are long, cold,, and relattrely
es that
lot~.n~ v
river va.Ueys r: c rber t apx s?1on W'
later lasts from early Oct( Der
tp late April, with Jassa tim~ra tk a coldest month. The m-eaxt
the
Zeya River beg na to freeZ : W they mld-dle of October, and by the
middle of Novex ,er the r .'.vrr is gevaral ,r frozen over. During the
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freezing period, a there is cones deraablc: > ovenaea t of ice along the
river. S001-14:ll, is cc mparativc iy l .g ht Wan depth of 3,110V oover
by 10-dayr periods is shown on the acce: 7img clixaatte -tables.
Although faprit g is coo)., mean teaapetratures ripe sharply from
April to My . ly the end of April, tba, ?n in ,wia spread, and moor::
of the snow coy r has disappeairzed.. Ttt.e, spring bs kup cf the rim-
ice occurs at the aid of April' but it # Ts sonmewhat.later i&. the
During the soma-, precipitat4.on. usually reaches a . .moon, but
it has been knawn to vu ' f rom I less ttai 1 Inch to over 11 inches 'or
July and for At?. gat at B 4goves hhch0nsJ~.. An much as 4.8 inches of
usually accompanied by ice Jame.
upper reaches of the 7eya. The ice f' .o - lasts 10 to 12 c nye and a
rainfall have been recordod foX' a singia 21+-hour period. In August,
Wxb.un da +ti ten estates in the 80'u and low 90's (7*) are not
'a1]., like moring, 5.8 a short tra3naitiox 1. season. Temperatwx-a
and rainfall decrease s a. ly f:.-on, Sept fiber to October. The first
frost of the ee ascn usvally occurs by t middle of Septeber, but
daytime temperatures my often exceed aa0 `lb ..
The Area is served by a good network of rail, road, and. water
rdutes, and has a ccias to air f c lit
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Ground water provrie?s an
Boni, a it aicate that the;r is
xce?..ler=t' sister supply in the "a.2. exea.
mi.n .Ai of 5 t ester-beaa?:Lag sty eta that
l.Tlh ter `ar~n "'~f7 '~ n, a ;'.` f~."V !. ~f a.. ncr .cry c.~a.Fic ll,.,Z0. .~wa
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depoerft-4s c, at o:r near the vet=faica ia:; the Area., geld free}h aid in places
artesian vater$.,:a e1 ? tc tj,a ao.-z ;hea :t. Ta,o sow be1-
about 17 gaud 22 miles to the c:_.thvaat, reaspectivei , ar;-i t3 cosn::p1c.
of Upper A alocxs or Protr~rd,,,zolc micact ou K on-bearing :=nei_ut e
Te Poe-Cambrian rock u !e i iJ .;. b 1 o'ic'r elevations of I l* Area
probably l:tes et an c s; s:.h of r o 'aoa'e than, 10 to .L feet, w:th
maxim m depthe rarely :z zer d t 75 to 10) Mat. This depth dec ea ez
with an iziCrehce, :?.n elc:v WVon, 'xzd_ on for YUg': er? y ;c,un.ta2>.ur -- above,
Olen'ya railroad ?ltf3:tun, is w! iuipor,Akti.t 01euego zR -
deposit and about seven Was as f - E:ry`th ~r >fe iot, o :hide the Area, the
smaller l ovo&',o z
Podzo.l_is: soil :ire 1cr inatE thrcu aou':r z o .,t of
the 1,200- to l:$ j -foot ieirel tKse z s~: sr2a:r axa :x k :, s:, fu]-ly
exposedv
In the ec: a; ttriej l part o! hu.- A raci, or 4 mfiet :test of tlt
the Area:, In to ettu?e the 'se a,: ^e at =4 of an a! j e and, or, x. places,
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