Oyat
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The Oyat () is a river in Babayevsky District of Vologda Oblast and Podporozhsky and Lodeynopolsky Districts of Leningrad Oblast of Russia, a major left tributary of the Svir (Lake Ladoga basin). The length of the Oyat is , and the area of its drainage basin is .
Key facts
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.name
- Oyat
- River.source1_location
- Lake Chaymozero
- River.mouth
- Svir
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.length_km
- 266
- River.basin_size_km2
- 5220
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Vologda Oblast
- Image
- Река Оять и Часовня преподобного Александра Свирского и вид на Введено-Оятский монастырь.jpg
- Length
- 266
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- Commons category
- Oyat River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Svir
- watershed area
- 5220
- discharge
- 51.8
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Oyat () is a river in Babayevsky District of Vologda Oblast and Podporozhsky and Lodeynopolsky Districts of Leningrad Oblast of Russia, a major left tributary of the Svir (Lake Ladoga basin). The length of the Oyat is , and the area of its drainage basin is .
The source of the Oyat is Lake Chaymozero in the western part of Babayevsky District. The Oyat flows to the northwest and enters Leningrad Oblast. In the village of Shandovichi it turns north. Upstream of the selo of Vinnitsy the Oyat accepts the Tuksha from the right and sharply turns southwest. It enters Lodeynopolsky District and in the selo of Alekhovshchina turns northwest. The mouth of the Oyat is located in the selo of Domozhilovo. Much of the valley of the Oyat in Leningrad oblast is populated.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oyat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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