Great Kokschaga
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Big Kokshaga Большая Кокшага (Bolshaya Kokshaga), Кугу Какшан |
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 The great Kokschaga |
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| Water code | RU : 08010400712112100000510 | |
| location | Kirov Oblast , Mari El ( Russia ) | |
| River system | Volga | |
| Drain over | Volga → Caspian Sea | |
| source | around 20 km north-northeast of Kiknur 57 ° 29 ′ 13 ″ N , 47 ° 25 ′ 2 ″ E |
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| muzzle | at Mariinsky Possad in the Volga Coordinates: 55 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ N , 48 ° 15 ′ 17 ″ E 55 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ N , 48 ° 15 ′ 17 ″ E
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| length | 297 km | |
| Catchment area | 6330 km² | |
| Right tributaries | Great Kundysh | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Kuibyshev reservoir | |
| Small towns | Kiknur, Santschursk | |
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 Location of the Great Kokshaga (Бол. Кокшага) in the catchment area of the Volga |
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The Great Kokshaga ( Russian Большая Кокшага ( Bolschaja Kokschaga ); Mari Кугу Какшан ) is a 297 km long left tributary of the Volga in the European part of Russia .
description
The Great Kokshaga rises about 2 km northeast of the Kokschaga settlement in the southwest of Kirov Oblast near the border with Nizhny Novgorod Oblast . From there it flows very curvy in a southerly direction through sparsely populated area. Around 20 km northwest of Yoshkar-Ola it reaches the Republic of Mari El .
After the confluence of the Great Kundysch , its largest tributary, it turns for a few kilometers to the southeast before flowing again to the south. 5 km northwest of its confluence with the Volga, it passes under the Vyatka highway . Across from Mariinsky Posad , it finally reaches the Volga, which is dammed up to form the Kuibyshev reservoir , which forms the border between the republics of Mari El and Chuvashia .
The Great Kokschaga is frozen from the beginning of November to April. In Mari El the river flows through the Sapowednik (nature reserve) Great Kokshaga .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Article Great Kokschaga in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Big Kokshaga in the State Water Register of the Russian Federation (Russian)