Namyndykan

The Namyndykan (Намындыкан) is a river in Magadan Oblast, Russia. It has a length of 199 km and a drainage basin of 2410 km2.

The Namyndykan is a left tributary of the middle course of the Omolon, Kolyma basin. The nearest village is Omolon, located to the east of its mouth. The basin of the river is a protected area.

Course
The source of the Namyndykan is in the northern end of the Kongin Range of the Kolyma Mountains, by the southern limit of the Yukaghir Highlands. The river heads across an uninhabited area and flows roughly eastwards until its mouth. Towards its middle course the river meanders strongly in a floodplain where there are swamps and lakes. Some of the lakes are quite large, such as the Krokhalin Lakes (Крохалиные озера) north of the river channel. In its last stretch the Namyndykan reaches the Omolon floodplain where it bends northeastwards before the confluence.

The Namyndykan joins the left bank of the Omolon in the area where the great river makes a bend northwards. The confluence is 466 km from the mouth of the Omolon, near the border of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

The Namyndykan has 19 tributaries longer than 10 km. The main tributaries are the 39 km long Neproydennyy and the 33 km long Snezhnyy from the right, as well as the 48 km long Vechernyaya and 35 km long Silny from the left.