Anadyr River

The Anadyr winds east through the broad Markovo lowland, spreading into channels among lakes and islands before continuing toward the Bering Sea. It is fed by rivers descending from the Anadyr and Anyuy highlands and freezes for much of the year. In the seventeenth century, Semyon Dezhnev and his companions established Anadyrsk near this stretch of the river. The fortified post became a Russian base in the far northeast before being abandoned in the eighteenth century.