Chapayevka
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Chapayevka Чапа́евка |
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| Water code | RU : 11010001512112100008708 | |
| location | Samara Oblast ( Russia ) | |
| River system | Volga | |
| Drain over | Volga → Caspian Sea | |
| source |
Sini Syrt , approx. 100 km southeast of Samara 52 ° 20 ′ 18 ″ N , 51 ° 23 ′ 49 ″ E |
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| muzzle | west and north of Novokuibyshevsk in an inland delta in the Volga Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 36 ″ E , 49 ° 33 ′ 9 ″ E, 53 ° 2 ′ 36 ″ N , 49 ° 33 ′ 9 ″ E
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| length | 298 km | |
| Catchment area | 4310 km² | |
| Outflow location: 179 km above the mouth |
MQ |
2.53 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Kuturuscha , Wjasowka , Bolshaya Wjasowka | |
| Big cities | Novokuibyshevsk | |
| Medium-sized cities | Chapayevsk | |
| Navigable | from the mouth 34 km to Chapayevsk | |
The Tschapajewka ( Russian Чапа́евка , former name: Мо́ча (Motscha)) is a 298 km long left tributary of the Volga in the European part of Russia .
course
The Tschapajewka rises in the southeast of the Samara Oblast on the border with the Orenburg Oblast in the mountain range of the Sini Syrt . From there it flows primarily in a north-westerly direction through the agriculturally intensively used south-eastern part of Samara Oblast.
Before the confluence of the Vyazovka , the river turns in predominantly western directions. It then turns north about ten kilometers south of Chapayevsk . It now begins to meander very strongly and has numerous oxbow lakes .
To the west of Chapayevsk, the river splits and forms an inland delta as an anastomosing river , which extends from Chapayevsk to Novokuibyshevsk . In this heavily swamped area, the mouth of the Tschapajewka flows into the oxbow lakes and tributaries of the Volga, which shortly afterwards is dammed up to form the Saratov reservoir .
Surname
Until 1925 the Tschapajewka was still called Motscha (Мо́ча, stress on the first syllable). The word is a homograph to Моча́, the Russian word for urine. It was given its current name in 1925 in honor of the civil war commander of the Red Army, Vasily Ivanovich Tschapajew , who fell in 1919 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Article Chapayevka in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)