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Om (river)

Om (river)

River in Omsk Oblast, Russia

The Om (Russian: Омь) is a river in the south of the Western Siberian plains in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Irtysh. It is 1,091 kilometres (678 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 52,600 square kilometres (20,300 sq mi).[1] It rises in the Vasyugan Swamp at the border of Novosibirsk and Tomsk oblasts.[2] The name is probably from the word om "quiet" in the language of the Baraba Tatars.[3] The city of Omsk is situated at the confluence of Om and Irtysh. The main tributaries are the Icha, Kama and Tartas.[2]

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  1. [1]
    "Река ОМЬ in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
  2. [2]
    Омь, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  3. [3]
    E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (Moscow, 1998), p. 310.
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