Patom

The Patom country lies in the highlands east of the Lena, where forested ridges feed rivers running towards the great Siberian waterway. The Bolshoy Patom rises in the highlands and enters the Lena from the right; the smaller Maly Patom joins nearby. Rapids and stony shallows break the course of the Bolshoy Patom, whose tributaries drain a mountainous landscape of long winters and short summers.