Vitim River
The Vitim is a major tributary of the Lena. Its source is east of Lake Baikal, at the confluence of rivers Vitimkan from the west and China from the east.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in eastern Siberia, Russia
- Also known as: “Vitim” and “Vytim”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vitim Airport.
Vitim Airport
Aerodrome
Vitim Airport is a public use airport built in Vitim, Sakha Republic, Russia during World War II for the Alaska-Siberian air route used to ferry American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Eastern Front.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vitim.
Vitim
Village
Vitim is an urban locality in Lensky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 229 kilometers from Lensk, the administrative center of the district, on the left bank of the Lena River at its confluence with the Vitim River.
Vitim River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.44812° or 59° 26′ 53″ north
Longitude
112.59224° or 112° 35′ 32″ east
Elevation
173 metres (568 feet)
Open location code
9PFJCHXR+6V
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yakut—“Vitim River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Witim”
- Arabic: “فيتيم”
- Armenian: “Վիտիմ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Vitim”
- Azerbaijani: “Vitim çayı”
- Basque: “Vitim ibaia”
- Basque: “Vitim”
- Belarusian: “Віцім”
- Belarusian: “Рака Віцім”
- Bulgarian: “Витим”
- Catalan: “Vitim”
- Cebuano: “Vitim”
- Chinese: “維京河”
- Chinese: “維季姆河”
- Chuvash: “Витим”
- Croatian: “Vitim”
- Czech: “Vitim”
- Danish: “Vitim”
- Dutch: “Vitim”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر فيتيم”
- Esperanto: “Vitim”
- Estonian: “Vitim”
- Finnish: “Vitim”
- French: “Vitim”
- German: “Witim”
- Hungarian: “Vityim”
- Irish: “Abhainn Vitim”
- Italian: “Vitim”
- Japanese: “ヴィチム川”
- Japanese: “ヴィティム川”
- Japanese: “ビチム川”
- Japanese: “ビティム川”
- Kirghiz: “Витим”
- Korean: “비팀 강”
- Korean: “비팀강”
- Kotava: “Vitim (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Vitim”
- Latin: “Witimus”
- Latvian: “Vitima”
- Lithuanian: “Vitimas”
- Macedonian: “Витим”
- Mongolian: “Витим”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vitim”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vitim”
- Norwegian: “Vitim”
- Ossetian: “Витим”
- Persian: “رود ویتیم”
- Polish: “Witim”
- Portuguese: “Rio Vitim”
- Russian: “Витим (река)”
- Russian: “Витим”
- Russian: “Река Витим”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vitim”
- Slovenian: “Vitim”
- Spanish: “Rio Vitim”
- Spanish: “Río Vitim”
- Spanish: “Vitim”
- Swahili: “Vitim”
- Swedish: “Vitim”
- Turkish: “Vitim Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Вітім”
- Uzbek: “Vitim”
- Venetian: “Fiume Vitim”
- Welsh: “Afon Vitim”
- Welsh: “Vitim”
- Yakut: “Витим өрүс”
- Yakut: “Витим”
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