Examples of using Irrawaddy in English and their translations into Russian
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Return to the Irrawaddy.
He followed the Irrawaddy River all the way to Rangoon.
Booby-trapped Myanmar Times a Best Seller The Irrawaddy, 25 July 2007.
At sea, Irrawaddy dolphins(Orcaella brevirostris) are sometimes seen.
Dayi originates from the Salween and Irrawaddy River drainages in Myanmar.
Dolphins The Irrawaddy dolphin(Orcaella brevirostris) is the flagship species of Chilika lake.
The lagoon also has a small population of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphins.
Beluga whales and irrawaddy dolphins are on list for protected(vulnerable) species.
It has been estimated that 1 million people in the Irrawaddy Delta are in need of food aid.
Goods travel primarily across the Thai border(where most illegal drugs are exported) and along the Irrawaddy River.
Bu Paia is located on the bank of the Irrawaddy River, it is believed that the pagoda was built in the 3rd century.
With the Allies overrunning Central Burma, 28th Army tried to retreat across the Irrawaddy, fighting several battles.
This escape included swimming across the Irrawaddy River, as the only bridge had been blown up to delay the Japanese.
It was absurd that such suspicions got in the way of soldiers helping cyclone victims in the Irrawaddy Delta.
Mingun is a former royal residence on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, thanks to which many sights are concentrated in the city.
In 1991, skirmishes broke out between the insurgents and the security forces of the Government in the Ayeyarwaddy(Irrawaddy) Division.
I came to in the middle of the Irrawaddy River on a bamboo raft, and I had to improvise these oars,'cause I could only row with one hand.
You know, you look at the world differently when you have crossed the Irrawaddy River on the shoulders of an elephant.
As the monsoon season ended,the remnants of the Fifteenth Army attempted to forestall an Allied offensive into Burma by withdrawing behind the Irrawaddy River.
They were eventually trappedin the Pegu Yomas, a range of low, forested hills between the Irrawaddy and the Sittang River, reduced to approximately 20,000 men.
The possibility of interesting excursions is provided on the territory of several resort places located in the suburbs of Yangon, Irrawaddy and Pegu.
The New Light of Myanmar reported in May 2007 that seven hydropower projects on the Irrawaddy River had been designed to double production of electricity in the country by 2009.
The Arakan Mountains are crossed by a road between Ngape and Minbu andby an all-weather road from Taungup to Pyay on the Irrawaddy.
Although the 28th Army subsequently held the An track andthe pass linking the port of Taungup to Prome on the Irrawaddy, a regiment was destroyed on Ramree Island 14 January- 22 February 1945.
Yangon's four main passenger jetties, all located on or near downtown waterfront, mainly serve local ferries across the river to Dala and Thanlyin, andregional ferries to the Irrawaddy delta.
Although it is over a year anda half since Cyclone Nargis ripped through the Irrawaddy Delta, killing 140,000 and leaving 2.4 million destitute, the situation remains fragile.
Other reports have been received, in some cases supported by photographic evidence, of large portions of entire villages being detained for'defying Governmental authority' by having refused displacement or,as in the case of over 100 villagers in the Irrawaddy Delta, for refusing to turnover rice crops to the military.
In the year 2000, the river basins of the Indus, Ganges,Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Yangtze, and Huang He(Yellow) Rivers collectively supported a population of 1.4 billion people, or almost a quarter of the world's population.
A large majority of these resignations are reported to have been registered in Irrawaddy, Mandalay and Pegu Divisions.
As the Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin forests extend east across Burma,they are bounded by the Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests of the Irrawaddy River basin to the south, and by the higher-elevation Northern Triangle subtropical forests to the north and the Northern Indochina subtropical forests to the east.

