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Also known as Selizharovka River

The Selizharovka () is a river in Ostashkovsky and Selizharovsky Districts of Tver Oblast, Russia, a left tributary of the Volga. The length of the river is , and the area of its drainage basin is . It is one of the uppermost substantial tributaries of the Volga. The settlement of Selizharovo is located near the river mouth.

Key facts

River.name
Selizharovka
River.image
Селижаровская ель.JPG
River.subdivision_type1
Country
River.subdivision_name1
Russia
River.subdivision_type2
Oblast
River.subdivision_name2
Tver Oblast
River.length_km
36
River.source1
Lake Seliger
River.source1_location
Valdai Hills
River.mouth
Volga
River.mouth_location
Selizharovo
River.basin_size_km2
2950

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
river
Located in
Tver Oblast
Image
Река Селижаровка (The Selizharovka river) - panoramio.jpg
Length
36
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Commons category
Selizharovka River
mouth of the watercourse
Volga
lake on watercourse
Seliger
watershed area
2950
discharge
20
tributary
Tikhvina
origin of the watercourse
Seliger
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The Selizharovka () is a river in Ostashkovsky and Selizharovsky Districts of Tver Oblast, Russia, a left tributary of the Volga. The length of the river is , and the area of its drainage basin is . It is one of the uppermost substantial tributaries of the Volga. The settlement of Selizharovo is located near the river mouth.

The Selizharovka is the only outflow of Lake Seliger, the biggest natural lake of the Upper Volga basin. The river originates at the southern end of the lake, at the village of Nizhniye Kotitsy. It flows southeast, crosses into Selizharovsky District, and joins the Volga at the urban-type settlement of Selizharovo.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Selizharovka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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