Turya

The Turya () is a river in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Sosva. It is long, with a drainage basin of .

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River.name: Turya
River.image: River Turya (inflow of the Sosva) 2.jpg
River.image_caption: The Turya at Krasnoturyinsk
River.mouth: Sosva
River.progression: Sosva→
River.subdivision_type1: Country
River.subdivision_name1: Russia
River.subdivision_type2: Federal subject
River.subdivision_name2: Sverdlovsk Oblast
River.length_km: 128
River.basin_size_km2: 1160

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Instance of: river
Country: Soviet Union
Located in: Sverdlovsk Oblast
Continent: Asia
Image: River Turya (inflow of the Sosva).jpg
Length: 128

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mouth of the watercourse: Sosva
watershed area: 1160
Commons category: Turya River
discharge: 2.64
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
different from: Turja

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The Turya () is a river in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Sosva. It is long, with a drainage basin of .

The river has its sources in the boggy regions east of the central Ural Mountains. It flows eastwards through a relatively open and somewhat boggy landscape, and flows into the Sosva some east of Krasnoturyinsk. The river is wide. It freezes over in late October, and stays frozen until late April or early May. Along the Turya lie the towns of Krasnoturyinsk and Karpinsk.

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