Yablon (river)
The Yablon (, ) is a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It has a length of and a drainage basin of . The Yablon is a right tributary of the Anadyr. The river and its tributaries are frozen for between eight to nine months every year. The nearest village is Markovo, located to the east of the mouth. History. The formerly unexplored Yablon river, was surveyed in March 1870 by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia. Course. The source of the Yablon is in the northeastern slopes of high Mount Snezhnaya , in the eastern section of the Oloy Range, Kolyma Mountains. The Yablon flows first northeastwards, then makes a wide bend roughly midway through its course and flows southeastwards splitting into multiple smaller channels. Finally it joins the right bank of the Anadyr a little upstream from the mouth of the Yeropol. The Yablon meets the Anadyr from its mouth. The river basin is in a desolate, mountainous area of Chukotka where there are no inhabited places. The main tributaries of the Yablon are the long Krestovaya and long Salamikha from the left, and the long Golaya from the right. Yablon