Vyatka (river)
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Vyatka Вятка |
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 The Vyatka in Kirov |
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| Water code | RU : 10010300212111100029744 | |
| location | Udmurtia , Kirov Oblast , Tatarstan ( Russia ) | |
| River system | Volga | |
| Drain over | Kama → Volga → Caspian Sea | |
| source | in the kama heights 58 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ N , 52 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E |
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| muzzle | west of Nizhnekamsk in the Kama coordinates: 55 ° 35 ′ 50 ″ N , 51 ° 29 ′ 31 ″ E 55 ° 35 ′ 50 ″ N , 51 ° 29 ′ 31 ″ E
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| length | 1314 km | |
| Catchment area | 129,000 km² | |
| Drain |
MQ |
890 m³ / s |
| Drain at the Vyatsky Polyany gauge |
MQ HHQ (May 1926) |
862 m³ / s 6800 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Belaya Cholunitsa , Chepza , Bystritsa , Woja , Kilmes | |
| Right tributaries | Kobra , Letka , Velikaya , Moloma , Pischma , Shoshma | |
| Big cities | Kirov | |
| Medium-sized cities | Kotelnich , Vyatsky Polyany | |
| Small towns | Mamadysh | |
| Ports | Kirov, Kotelnitsch, Sovetsk , Vyatskije Polyany | |
| Navigable | from the estuary to Kirov (about 700 km), in spring 1,000 km to Kirs | |
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 Catchment area of the Vyatka with tributaries |
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The Vyatka ( Russian Вятка , Tatar Нократ / Noqrat, Udmurt Ватка, mari Виче) is a 1314 km long right tributary of the Kama in the east of the European part of Russia .
description
The river rises at about 58.20 ° north, 52.20 ° east in the Kama Heights in the Russian Republic of Udmurtia , flows northward, makes an arc to the west, and then flows in a south-west through Kirov . Then the Vyatka turns to the southeast to flow into the Kama around 35 kilometers west of Nizhnekamsk .
The Vyatka drains an area of 129,000 km². The mean discharge is 890 m³ / s. The Vyatka is the most important river in the Kirov Oblast and - if it is not frozen over - is largely navigable .
From 1780 bis 1934 was Wjatka also the name of the city of Kirov.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Article Vyatka in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ a b c Vyatka in the State Water Register of the Russian Federation (Russian)
- ↑ UNESCO - Vyatka at Vyatskie Polyany ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
