Sviyaga
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The Sviyaga (; ; ) is a river in the Ulyanovsk Oblast and Tatarstan, a right tributary of the Volga. It is long, and its drainage basin covers . The Sviyaga flows into the Sviyaga Cove of the Kuybyshev Reservoir, west of Kazan. It freezes up in November or December and stays icebound until April or May. Major tributaries are the Arya, Birlya, Bula, Karla, Kubnya, Sulitsa and Tosha rivers.
Key facts
- River.name
- Sviyaga
- River.image
- Svijaga.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Sviyaga River at Ulyanovsk
- River.mapframe frame height
- 300
- River.source1_location
- Ulyanovsk Oblast
- River.mouth
- Volga
- River.mouth_location
- Kuybyshev Reservoir
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.length_km
- 375
- River.discharge1_avg
- (near mouth)
- River.basin_size_km2
- 16700
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The Sviyaga (; ; ) is a river in the Ulyanovsk Oblast and Tatarstan, a right tributary of the Volga. It is long, and its drainage basin covers . The Sviyaga flows into the Sviyaga Cove of the Kuybyshev Reservoir, west of Kazan. It freezes up in November or December and stays icebound until April or May. Major tributaries are the Arya, Birlya, Bula, Karla, Kubnya, Sulitsa and Tosha rivers.
The city of Ulyanovsk is along the Sviyaga. In Ulyanovsk, the Sviyaga flows only a few kilometres away from the Volga, but their eventual confluence happens much further downstream, about north of Ulyanovsk.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sviyaga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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