Kas (river)
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Kas Кас, Большой Кас (Bolshoi Kas) |
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| Water code | RU : 17010400112116100028831 | |
| location | Krasnoyarsk Region ( Russia ) | |
| River system | Yenisei | |
| Drain over | Yenisei → Arctic Ocean | |
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West Siberian Lowlands 58 ° 48 ′ 2 ″ N , 90 ° 52 ′ 4 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 175 m | |
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Yenisei near Nizhneshadrino Coordinates: 59 ° 57 ′ 45 " N , 90 ° 35 ′ 47" E 59 ° 57 ′ 45 " N , 90 ° 35 ′ 47" E |
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| Mouth height | 48 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 127 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 0.27 ‰ | |
| length | 464 km | |
| Catchment area | 11,200 km² | |
| Discharge at the Alexandrowski Schljus A Eo gauge : 7640 km² Location: 197 km above the mouth |
MQ 1951/1993 Mq 1951/1993 |
53.5 m³ / s 7 l / (s km²) |
| Left tributaries | Maly Kas | |
| Right tributaries | Kassovskaya | |
| Communities | Nowy Gorodok | |
| Navigable | 120 km | |
The Kas ( Russian Кас ) is a 464 kilometer long left tributary of the Yenisei on the eastern edge of the West Siberian lowlands in Russia (with the source river Bolshoi Kas ) .
course
The Bolschoi Kas ( "Big Kas") as the flow of its length up to the junction of the Maly Kas ( "Small Kas") referred to about the half, entfließt approximately 175 m height a marsh area in western central part of Krasnoyarsk , about 80 km northwest of Yeniseisk . He first flows in a northwesterly direction, turns are at the mouth of the Maly Kas abruptly to the northeast and retains this direction - always on the territory of the Rajons Yeniseisk Krasnoyarsk region - to the mouth at, where he heavily on the entire length of meanders . The Kas flows into a left arm of the Yenisei below the village of Nizhneshadrino at a height of 48 m .
The only significant tributary next to the Maly Kas is the Kassowskaya, which flows into the lower reaches from the right.
Hydrography
The catchment area of the Kas covers 11,200 km². Near the mouth, the river is almost 150 m wide and over 1 m deep; the flow velocity here is 1.0 m / s.
The Kas freezes from the beginning of November to mid-May, followed by a two-month summer flood. The water flow below the confluence of the Maly Kas, at Alexandrowski Schljus 197 kilometers above the mouth, is an annual average of 53.5 m³ / s with a minimum of 20.7 m³ / s in March and a maximum of 211 m³ / s in May.
Infrastructure
The river is navigable for 120 km from the mouth.
The Kas flows through very sparsely populated areas. Only the village Nowy Gorodok with the district Kassowo and the small settlement Alexandrowski Schljus at the mouth of the Maly Kas are located directly on the river .
The Kas and thus the river system of the Yenisei has been connected to that of the Ob via the Maly Kas since the end of the 19th century : the Ob-Jenissei Canal (also called Ket-Kas Canal ; Lage ) was opened in 1893, which connects the upper reaches of the Maly Kas connects with the Vodorasdelnoye (or Bolshoye) lake, which in turn flows off via Yasevaya, Lomovataja and Osjornaya to the right Ob tributary, the Ket . The length of the actual canal is only 8 km, that of the entire waterway between Kas and Ket over 200 km. However, the canal was only navigable for ships between 8 tonnes and a maximum of 80 tonnes at high tide for about three and a half months per year, was never expanded to the originally planned dimensions and soon fell behind due to competition from the Trans-Siberian Railway . In the Russian Civil War were locks of the canal damaged, barely and 1942 for the last time traveled by inland vessels. Today the canal leading through a remote area is only navigable with pleasure boats; the place name Alexandrowski Schljus - " Alexander - lock" - reminds of him.
There are no fixed roads in the area through which the water flows. Not far from the source, a dirt road crosses the river, which leads from Yeniseisk to the downstream village of Nowonasimowo on the left bank of the Yenisei .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kas in the State Water Register of the Russian Federation (Russian)
- ↑ a b Article Kas in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ a b Kas at the Alexandrowski Schljus gauge - hydrographic data at R-ArcticNET
- ^ List of Inland Waterways of the Russian Federation (confirmed by Order No. 1800 of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 19, 2002); on-line
- ↑ The sad story of a grandiose project ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Dmitri Panin in Krasnoyarsky Rabotschi on September 5, 2003 (Russian, photos)
