Lovat
Sign in to saveriver in Belarus and Russia, flows into Lake Ilmen
Key facts
- Country
- Belarus , Russia
- Source
- Lake Lovatets
- Location
- Khoteshino, Russia
- Coordinates
- 55°50′46″N 30°17′56″E / 55.846°N 30.299°E / 55.846; 30.299
- Elevation
- 170 m (560 ft)
- Mouth
- Lake Ilmen
- Length
- 530 km (330 mi)
- Basin size
- 21,900 km (8,500 sq mi)
- Average
- 105 m /s (3,700 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Lake Ilmen → ‹See Tfd› Volkhov → ‹See Tfd› Lake Ladoga → ‹See Tfd› Neva → Gulf of Finland
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Encyclopedic overview
The Volkhov River drainage vasin. The Lovat is shown on the map.
The Lovat (Belarusian: Ловаць, romanized: Lovac', IPA: [ˈɫovatsʲ]; Russian: Ло́вать) is a river in Vitebsk Oblast of Belarus, Usvyatsky, Velikoluksky, and Loknyansky Districts, as well as of the city of Velikiye Luki, of Pskov Oblast and Kholmsky, Poddorsky, Starorussky, and Parfinsky Districts of Novgorod Oblast in Russia. The source of the Lovat is Lake Lovatets in northeastern Belarus, and the Lovat is a tributary of Lake Ilmen. Its main tributaries are the Loknya (left), the Kunya (right), the Polist (left), the Redya (left), and the Robya (right). The towns of Velikiye Luki and Kholm, as well as the urban-type settlement of Parfino, are located on the banks of the Lovat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lovat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations