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The Jeja (Russian Ея ) is a 313 km long tributary of the Azov Sea in the northern Caucasus foothills in Russia.

Course

The Jeja rises at an altitude of about 100 m in the plains of northeastern Kuban region. The source is located 50 km due east of the city Tikhoretsk, a few kilometers southeast of the Staniza Nowopokrowskaja in the Krasnodar region. The Jeja flows through the north of the region in a north -westerly direction later. On one part of the lower reaches it marks the border with the Rostov Oblast and flows through their territory to a few kilometers. The traversed by the lower reaches area is heavily versumft. She finally ends near the Staniza Staroschtscherbinowskaja in the Jeja - Liman (also Jeiski - Liman Liman or Jeisker ) of Taganrog Bay of the Azov Sea. The up to 13 km wide Liman opens got 20 km further west to the open sea.

The Jeja flows through no cities, but a lot of larger Stanizen, some of which have up to 30,000 inhabitants, of whom apart from the abovementioned Kalnibolotskaja, Krylowskaja, Kisljakowskaja, Kuschtschowskaja, Schkurinskaja and Kanelowskaja. A few kilometers away from the river is at its left tributary Sossyka the large Cossack village Starominskaja, on the south bank of the mouth of the Jeja - Liman's named after the river town Jeisk.

The most important tributaries are Gorkaja, Ploskaja, Kawalerka and Kugo - Jeja of right and Ternovka, Wessjolaja and Sossyka from the left.

Hydrology

The catchment area of the river covers 8650 km ². The average discharge amount is on the middle reaches in the Cossack village Kuschtschowskaja only 2.5 m³ / s Virtually their entire length of the river is regulated by small dams and an uninterrupted series of ponds dar. From the upper middle reaches of the river water is slightly salty.

Use and infrastructure

The Jeja is not navigable. Because of the salt content their water may be used only conditionally suitable for irrigation of agricultural land.

Not far from their source, the Jeja is in the Cossack village Nowopokrowskaja of the railway Volgograd - crossed Tikhoretsk in Kuschtschowskaja of the Rostov -on-Don route - - Salsk Makhachkala and Kanelowskaja the track Bataisk - Krasnodar. The M4 highway from Moscow to Krasnodar and on to the Black Sea crosses the Jeja at Kisljakowskaja, the regional road R268 from Bataisk to Krasnodar near the mouth.