The Kuranakh-Yuryakh is a left
tributary of the Omoloy. It has its sources in the eastern slopes of the
Orulgan Range of the
Verkhoyansk Range system. The river flows roughly northeastwards across mountainous terrain, bound in the east by the
Sietinden Range, then it heads eastwards along a wide valley. As it descends into the floodplain of the
East Siberian Lowland, it turns again in a northeastern direction, flowing slowly among lakes and dividing into a tangle of
river channels. Finally the Kuranakh-Yuryakh joins the left bank of the Omoloy from its mouth. The confluence is upstream of the mouth of the
Arga-Yuryakh. The nearest inhabited place is
Namy, located upstream from its mouth in the Omoloy.
Tributaries The main tributaries of the Kuranakh-Yuryakh are the long Nyolu and the
Seimchan on the right, as well as the long Kuobakhchan and the long Ystannakh on the left. The river is frozen between early October and early June. There are more than thousand lakes in its basin. ==See also==