Salda River (Tagil tributary)

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Location ( Салда ) as tributary of the Tagil ( Тагил ) in the catchment area of Tura

The Salda (Russian Салда ) is a 122 km long right tributary of the Tagil in Siberia (Russia, Asia). It is not to be confused with the little north -flowing tributary of the same name Salda the Tura.

Course

The Salda rises approximately 280 meters above sea level on the eastern flank of the Middle Urals, about 20 kilometers southeast of the city of Nizhny Tagil. It flows in the north-eastern directions, always on the territory of Sverdlovsk Oblast, by the named after the river towns Verkhnaya Salda and Nischnjaja Salda (translated upper and Untersalda ). The river finally ends at the village Medwedewo, about 30 kilometers northeast of Nischnjaja Salda in the Tagil ( at 108 m). The Salda is about 50 feet wide, three feet deep in mouth close and the flow rate is 0.5 m / s

Hydrographic

The catchment area of ​​1770 km ² comprises Salda. The most important tributary is the river from the left Issa.

The Salda freezes between late October and early November and April. The average monthly water flow in mouth close is 7.2 m³ / s

Infrastructure and economy

The Salda is not navigable. In the cities and Nischnjaja Verkhnaya Salda end of the 18th century were created small reservoirs ( " ponds " ) to supply the iron works erected there by the river; Another slightly upstream on the creek near the mouth of Issa.

Especially in the middle reaches around towns and Nischnjaja Verkhnaya Salda River Basin is relatively well developed infrastructure. In Nischnjaja Salda railway and road Nizhny Tagil cross - Alapayevsk the river.