Beysug River

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The Beissug (Russian Бейсуг, translit. Bejsug ) is a 243 km long tributary of the Azov Sea in the northern Caucasus foothills in Russia.

Course

The Beissug out at a level of about 80 m in the steppes of eastern Cuba area. The source is located about seven kilometers northwest of the town of Kropotkin. The Beissug flows along its entire length in a north- westerly directions to the central part of the Krasnodar region. Below the Staniza Brjuchowezkaja the river reaches the previous Liman Lebjaschi that has been transformed by engineering measures from a lagoon of the Sea of ​​Azov in a shallow lake. A few kilometers further follows the Beissug - Liman ( Liman - Beissugski ), the upper, approximately 25 km long section was separated by a dam in the Cossack village Brinkowskaja and Beissug reservoir was formed. The reservoir has become a Wetland now much silted up and. In Brinkowskaja the river finally reaches the still existing in its original form part of the Beissug - Liman, which is about 30 km long and just over 10 km wide. The Liman is separated by the Spit Jassenskaja Kossa from the open sea, to which only some 200 m wide flow is 25 km north of the town of Primorsko - Akhtarsk.

The Beissug flows through no towns, but on the river or in its vicinity are the larger Stanizen Nowomalorossijkaja, Wysselki, Beresanskaja, Baturinskaja, Perejaslowskaja, Brjuchowezkaja and Brinkowskaja.

The most important tributaries are the Beissuschok and the rights Beissuschok ( Beissuschok Prawy ) from the right and the linker Beissuschok ( Beissuschok Lewy ) from the left.

Hydrology

The catchment area of the river covers 5190 km ². Ice drift can be observed from December to mid-March; February to April the river is flooding. On almost its entire length to Brjuchowezkaja the river is regulated by small dams and represents an unbroken series of ponds; the river is heavily verkrautet.

Use and infrastructure

The Beissug is not navigable. Its water is used for irrigation of agricultural land.

In the immediate vicinity of the source of Beissug the railway line runs Rostov- on-Don - Makhachkala, the middle reaches at Wysselki or Beresanskaja cross the railway line Tikhoretskaya - Krasnodar and the highway from Moscow to Krasnodar M4 to the Black Sea coast. In Brjuchowezkaja cross railway line and regional road R268 Bataisk - Krasnodar the river.