Chu River

Tschüi in schools

Valley of Tschüi below Tokmok

Course of Tschüi (English Chu )

The 1067 km long Tschüi ( Kyrgyz Чүй; Kazakh Шу, also called Chu or training ) is a river in northern Kyrgyzstan and southeastern Kazakhstan (Central Asia ).

Geography

Headwaters: It is created on Südostfuß of the Kyrgyz mountain range above the dam Ortotokoi (47 km ³ maximum storage volume ) from the union of its source rivers ( Dschoon - Aryk and Kochkor ) and controls for the time being at the big lake Issyk Kul and without reaching these or to flow through to be run underneath the city Ortotokoi to the northwest turns.

Middle reaches: Then he is on 221 km length of its 336 km total flow distance in Kyrgyzstan to the border to Kazakhstan and flows through the Kyrgyz city Tokmok, of which the non- traversed by Tschüi cities Kant and Bishkek ( Kyrgyz capital ) are removed to the west only a maximum of 100 km. All these and the below mentioned cities are in the 15 to 100 km wide and lush by extensive irrigation and arable Tschüi Valley, which opens a v-shape to the northwest. Below Tokmok the Tschüi flows further through other Qordai in a northwesterly direction, and after leaving the common border of the two states ( at Kaynar ) it runs on its remaining distance only on Kazakh territory, where he initially flows through the city schools.

Underflow: Then he separates the Mujunkum desert in the south of the Hunger Steppe in the north, after which it then seeps into the depression Asikol; the latter happens only if it leads enough water in precipitation years and it also is not too much water is extracted for irrigation purposes.

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The Tschüi, from which the name of the northernmost region of Kyrgyzstan was ( area Tschüi ) derived, is one of the many rivers that drain the northern part of the state and seep into the deserts and semi-deserts of Kazakhstan or evaporate. He is, among other rivers of the state and especially after running only on Kyrgyz territory Naryn one of the longest and most important rivers in Kyrgyzstan. Most rivers in the northern part of the country are fed by snow and glaciers. Because of the strong gradient in here high to 4,875 m mountain high flow velocities up to 3 m per second reached and therefore, the Tschüi does not freeze.

The area by the river Tschüi was in the last decades of the 20th century, home to approximately 100,000 Russian-Germans who were expelled from their Autonomous Republic on the Volga.

The catchment area of ​​60,800 km ² Tschüi comprises only.