Uftyuga River (Arkhangelsk Oblast)

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Position of Uftjuga in the catchment area of the Northern Dvina

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The Uftjuga (Russian Уфтюга ) is a 236 km long right tributary of the Northern Dvina in the north of the European part of Russia. It is not to be confused with several of the same rivers in this region.

Course

The Uftjuga rises in the southeast of Arkhangelsk Oblast - it flows through its entire length - not far from the border with the Republic of Komi, 60 km west of the village Jarensk in about 180 m altitude. It flows through in places swampy taiga area, mainly in the south-west, parallel with the larger Dvina Creek Vychegda and strongly meandering particularly in the lower reaches. You finally flows near the village Krasnoborsk in 36 m height in the Peschtschanski Poloi, a right arm of the Northern Dvina.

The most important tributaries of the Uftjuga are Motma and Topsa from the left and from the right Lachoma.

Hydrographic

The catchment area of ​​6300 km ² comprises Uftjuga. In estuaries near the river reaches a width of about 50 meters at a depth of about one meter; the flow rate is in this case 0.6 m / s

The Uftjuga freezes between the second half of October to November and the end of April to the first half of May. The Drainage of Jaruchino, 55 km upstream of the mouth ( and upstream of the confluence of Topsa and Lachoma ), is an annual average of 35.3 m³ / s with a minimum of 6.7 m³ / s in February and a maximum of 186 m³ / s in May.

Infrastructure and economy

The Uftjuga is navigable for 72 km for smaller vehicles from the village of Kulikovo and used for timber floating.

The through by the Uftjuga area has been inhabited total thin, cities do not exist. Only the lower reaches are a series of small villages that belong to the rural settlements Komarowo, Kulikovo, Verkhnaya Uftjuga and Berjosowonawolok. Only in this area there are roads that are only partially attached.

In the catchment area of the river forestry plays a significant role. For their purposes - the timber removal to the rivers and the connection of otherwise by land or no year-round accessible villages - several narrow-gauge railways were built here, for example, starting from Kulikovo ( opened in 1954, length 50 km, 2005 in operation) or from the settlement Slobodskoi (formerly Kvasha ) over the creek and the eponymous village Motma until after Charitonowo at the Vychegda (built from Charitonowo in the direction of the river Njuba from 1931, from Slobodskoi 1968; connection between the two networks, 1975; length of the "Main Line " 72 km, all kinds of junctions; into operation in 2006 ).

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