Medveditsa River (Volga basin)

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Position of Medveditsa ( Медведица ) in the catchment area of the Volga

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The Medveditsa (Russian Медведица ) is a 259 km long left tributary of the Volga River in the European part of Russia.

Course

The Medveditsa rises in the Valdai Hills in the north-east of Tver Oblast in the northwest of European Russia. They first flows through a wooded, swampy valley to the south, but it has already a few kilometers to the east, where the valley widens and is now used for agriculture. It happened Rameschki and takes the Kuschalka and Iwiza on.

Then the Medveditsa first flows in an arc to the northeast, east and finally southeast. In this arc Dresna and Tschertanowka from left and Sutschek and Smorodinka open a from the right. Here it flows through Verkhnaya Troiza, the birthplace of Soviet revolutionary, politician and head of state Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.

From there, the Medveditsa flows eastwards on, before they pivoted around at Semenowskoje south. From here also the backwater of the Uglich Reservoir on the Volga, in the other about 30 km further opens the Medveditsa south begins.

Use

The Medveditsa is navigable to the lower 41 km in the ice-free period from early April to mid-November. In the middle reaches of the river because of the numerous sandbars and shallows for shipping is inappropriate.

The river is very popular with day-trippers and tourists.