Ob River

The Ob River (Russian: Обь; IPA: [opʲ]), also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia and is the world's seventh longest river. It forms at the confluence of the Biya and Katun rivers which their origins in the Altay Mountains. It is the westernmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Yenisei River and the Lena River). The Gulf of Ob is the world's longest estuary.

Names

The Ob is known to the Khanty people as the As, Yag, Kolta and Yema; to the Nenets people as the Kolta or Kuay; and to the Siberian Tatars as the Umar or Omass. Possibly from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ap-, "river, water" (compare Persian āb, Tajik ob, and Pashto obə, "water").

Geography

The Ob forms 25 km (16 mi) southwest of Biysk in Altai Krai at the confluence of the Biya and Katun rivers. Both these streams have their origin in the Altay Mountains, the Biya issuing from Lake Teletskoye, the Katun, 700 kilometres (430 mi) long, bursting out of a glacier on Mount Byelukha.

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OB

OB or Ob may refer to:

General

OB star, in astronomy, a hot, massive star of spectral types O or B

Odense Boldklub, a Danish football club

Organizational behaviour, an academic field of study

Oriental Brewery, a South Korean brewery, which produces the OB lagers

Outside broadcasting, a television broadcasting from a mobile television studio, such as a van

Outward Bound, an international outdoor education organization

Astrakhan Airlines (IATA code)

Boliviana de Aviación (IATA code)

Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin), from "ob", archaic abbreviation (see, e.g., Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One, II.iv.539)

Object Manager (Windows), a Windows NT subsystem

The fictional currency of the Gands in Eric Frank Russell's The Great Explosion

Orphan Black, a popular Canadian science fiction television show.

Recipient of the Order of Burma

People

Sam "O.B." O'Brien, a fictional character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks

Ed O'Bradovich, a former Chicago Bears defensive lineman and current Bears postgame host on 670 the Score

Oba-Igbomina

Oba-Igbomina (in Yoruba correctly Ọ̀bà, but also written as Òbà), is an ancient Igbomina town in northeastern Isin Local Government Area of Kwara State. It is one of the five related Yoruba towns named "Oba", the others being

Oba-Ile, Olorunda LGA, Osun State, located about 15 km northwest of Osogbo,

Oba-Oke, Olorunda LGA, Osun State, located north-northwest of Osogbo,

Oba-Ile Akure South LGA, Ondo State, located just east of Akure, on Akure-Owo Road,

Oba-Akoko Akoko South-West LGA, Ondo State, located northeast of Owo.

The original Ọ̀bà was the capital of an ancient Ọ̀bà civilization, a kingdom reputed in the oral history of the region as a center of great wealth and enterprise. Most of the extant Oba towns claim to be the original Oba or claim to be the oldest derivative of the ancient civilization.

History and archaeology

Recent archaeological research results and published works of oral history experts, anthropologists and archeologists of the Arizona State University, USA and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, of the region's contemporary and later settlements suggest that Ọ̀bà was founded between the 9th and 10th centuries. Regular conflicts with the neighbouring Nupe resulted in cycles of abandonment and reoccupation of the Òbà mother city.