Vashka
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The Vashka () is a river in Udorsky District of the Komi Republic and Leshukonsky and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia. It is a left and the biggest tributary of the Mezen. It is long, and the area of its basin . The principal tributaries of the Vashka are the Mytka (left), the Loptyuga (right), the Yortom (left), the Yevva (right), the Sodzim (right), the Puchkoma (left), the Zyryanskaya Yezhuga (left), and the Chulas (right).
Key facts
- River.name
- Vashka
- River.mouth
- Mezen
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.map
- Mezen eng.svg
- River.map_caption
- The river basin of the Mezen
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Arkhangelsk Oblast
- Image
- Leshukonskoye, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, 164670 - panoramio - Andris Malygin (1).jpg
- Length
- 420
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- tributary
- Nyuvyu
- mouth of the watercourse
- Mezen
- origin of the watercourse
- Komi Republic
- watershed area
- 21000
- discharge
- 184
- Commons category
- Vashka river (Komi)
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Vashka () is a river in Udorsky District of the Komi Republic and Leshukonsky and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia. It is a left and the biggest tributary of the Mezen. It is long, and the area of its basin . The principal tributaries of the Vashka are the Mytka (left), the Loptyuga (right), the Yortom (left), the Yevva (right), the Sodzim (right), the Puchkoma (left), the Zyryanskaya Yezhuga (left), and the Chulas (right).
The source of the Vashka is in the south-west of Udorsky District, close to the border with Arkhangelsk Oblast. The river flows in the general direction of north-west. In the upper course, the Vashka flows in the hilly landscape, and in the lower course it meanders leaving a big number of lakes. The urban type settlement of Blagoyevo is located on the Venyu River, several kilometers east of the Vashka, and the selo of Leshukonskoye, the administrative center of Leshukonsky District, is located on the left bank of the river just upstream from its confluence with the Mezen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vashka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations