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Also known as Om River
river in Omsk and Novosibirsk Oblasts, Russia
Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Mouth
- Irtysh
- Length
- 1,091 km (678 mi)
- Basin size
- 52,600 km (20,300 sq mi)
- Average
- 64 m /s (2,300 cu ft/s) 121 km from the mouth
- Progression
- Irtysh → Ob → Kara Sea
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Om (Russian: Омь, Siberian Tatar: Ом) 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).
The name is probably from the word om "quiet" in the language of the Baraba Tatars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Om” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.