| Eyekit | |
| Other Name: | Эекит / Эйэкит |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Sakha Republic |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Mouth location in Yakutia, Russia |
| Source1 Location: | Kystyk Plateau |
| Source1 Elevation: | ca 300m (1,000feet) |
| Mouth: | Lena |
| Mouth Location: | Near Kyusyur |
| Mouth Elevation: | 5m (16feet) |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Russia |
| Length: | 3130NaN0 |
| Basin Size: | 8740km2 |
The Eyekit (ru|Эекит, sah|Эйэкит) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is a left tributary of the Lena. Its length is 313km (194miles) from the sources of the Buor Eyekit. The area of its basin including the latter is 8740km2.
The Eyekit flows across the Bulunsky district. The banks of the river are uninhabited.
The Eyekit is the last major tributary of the Lena before it ends in the Arctic Ocean. It originates in the southeastern slopes of the Kystyk Plateau, at the northeastern limit of the Central Siberian Plateau as the Buor-Eyekit. In its upper course it flows southeast, then it reaches a floodplain with small lakes and swamps and turns northeast. After being joined by the Tas-Eyekit from the left, it flows roughly eastwards cutting across the southern end of the Chekanovsky Ridge, north of a large bend of the Lena. Finally it meets the left bank of the great river a little north of Kyusyur, 183km (114miles) upstream of its mouth in the Laptev Sea.[1] [2]
The Eyekit freezes in the first half of October and stays under ice until late May.[3]
The longest tributary of the Eyekit is the 155km (96miles) long Tas-Eyekit (Тас-Эекит), joining it from the left.[3]
