MANYCH

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MANYCH , a river and depression in S.

Russia

RUSSIA
RUSSIA (Rossiya)

, stretching between the

lower

LOWER

river Don and the Caspian Sea, through the Don Cossacks territory and between the government of Astrakhan on the N. and that of

Stavropol

STAVROPOL

on the S. During the greater

part

PART

of the year it is either dry or occupied in

part

PART

by a

string

STRING

of saline lakes Winans or ilmens); but in

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

when the streams swell which empty into it, the water flows in two opposite directions from the highest point (near Shara-Khulusun). The western stream flows westwards, with an inclination northwards, until it reaches the Don, though when the latter river is running high, its water penetrates some 6o miles up the Manych. The eastern stream dies away in the sandy steppe about 25 miles from the Caspian, though it is said sometimes to reach the Kuma through the Huiduk, a tributary of the Kuma.

Total

TOTAL

length of the depression, 330 M. For its significance as a former (geologic) connexion between the Sea of

Azov

AZOV
AZOV, SEA OF

and the Caspian Sea, see CASPIAN SEA. By some authorities the Manych depression is taken as part of the boundary between Europe and

Asia

ASIA

.

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