Argun River (Caucasus)
Argun in Shatili in Georgia, just before the Russian border
The Argun in Georgia
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The Argun (Russian Аргун, georgian არღუნი / Arghuni, Chechen Орг / Org) is a 148 km long right tributary of the Sunzha in Georgia and the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya in Russia.
Course
The river rises at an altitude of about 2800 m on the northern flank of there with relatively low below 3200 m main ridge of the Greater Caucasus, which is called in this Section Pshavi - Chewsuretischer comb. The source is located in the Georgian region of Mtskheta - Mtianeti about 90 km as the crow north of the capital Tbilisi. This part of the area is the northern part of the historical region Khevsureti is named after its there on both sides of the Caucasus ridge settled Khevsurs, an ethnic group of Georgians.
The Argun flows first in a northerly direction and reaches approximately 20 km Russia. In a mostly narrow gorge it flows through the mountainous, sparsely populated part of a total of Chechnya, in the meantime in an easterly direction, then again almost to the north. Below a " Argun Gate " mentioned valley becomes narrower near the village of Duba -Yurt he reached the densely populated level and finally joins up with Iljinskaja, nearly 10 km northeast of the city named after the river Argun in the Terek Creek Sunzha. In addition to Argun, the Chechen capital of Grozny and the city of Shali are only about ten kilometers from the river.
The catchment area of 3390 km ² comprises Argun. The most important tributary is the Scharoargun which is above the " Argun gate " opens directly from the right.
Use and infrastructure
The Argun is not navigable. In the lowland section of its water is used for irrigation of agricultural land and derived for this purpose through channels such as the Argun channel and the Atagi - Goity channel.
In space Grozny - Argun river at two points of the highway M29 from Rostov-on- Don is crossed to the Azerbaijani border: leading directly from the Chechen capital branch and the southern bypass route. Grozny - - In the town of Argun, the railway crosses Beslan Gudermes the river. Argunaufwärts of Grozny leads the regional road R305, in the riverside southwestern Rajonverwaltungszentren Shatoi (formerly Sowetskoje ) and Itum Kale leads. Belonging to Georgia area on the upper reaches of the river is accessible by a road that leads coming from the direction of Tbilisi on the navigable from May to November 2676 meters high Datwis - Dschwarisgele Pass to the village Shatili shortly before the Russian border.