The Velikaya (,Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ, Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 83 also Большая Bolshaya, Онемен Onemen;Великая (река в Магаданской обл.), Great Soviet Encyclopedia , Meynyveem), is a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Russia.
It is  long (556 km including its source river Kylvygeyvaam), and has a drainage basin of .
Course
It flows north-eastwards from the confluence of the rivers Kuimveyem and Kylvygeyvaam in the Koryak Range through the southern end of the Anadyr Lowlands into Onemen Bay, part of the Anadyr River estuary of the Bering Sea at the Gulf of Anadyr.
The Rarytkin Range rises along the left bank of the river in its middle and lower course.
Velikaya (Великая) translates to great in Russian, Bolshaya (Большая) translates to big in Russian.
The Velikaya and its tributaries belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
One of the native names of this river is Echinku, so that in some documents referring to this river in Soviet times, it was referred to as Velikaya-Echinku.Velikaya-Echinku naming.
There is a small populated place in the area close to its estuary also called Velikaya.
Beluga whales are common in its estuarine waters.
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