Anuy River

Anui at Soloneschnoje ( Altai region )

The Anui (Russian Ануй ) is a 327 km long left tributary of the Ob in the Altai Mountains and its foreland in West Siberia (Russia).

Course

The Anui rises in about 1220 m at the southeastern end of the here nearly 1700 m high, named after the river Anuikammes in the northwestern part of the Russian Altai, a few kilometers above the village Werchni Beloanui. It first flows in a northwesterly direction through a valley that separates the Anuikamm from further south-west parallel Baschtschelakkamm. After about 40 kilometers, and the flows through the villages Bely Anui and Tschorny Anui the Anui leaves the Altai Republic and reached the north then Altai region. The entire upper reaches of the river is also called White Anui ( Bely Anui ), to union with the much smaller, flowing from left Black Anui ( Tschorny Anui, also Tschernowoi Anui ) some 30 km to reach the Altai region, a few kilometers above the village and Rajonverwaltungszentrums Soloneschnoje.

At the village Antonjewskoje the flow occurs finally in a good 250 m altitude in the Altai foothills and turns in a northeasterly to easterly direction. It flows through the hilly steppe landscape meandering, pointing to less than 60 km approximately parallel to the Ob and 20 miles away from this away, but in the opposite direction. The wide valleys of whether and Anui be separated in this area through the 100 m high ridge Kolywanski Uwal. At the village Anuiskoje the Anui turns north again and ends at Ust- Anui southwest of the city Bijsk in the Ob, only 20 km below its origin from Biya and Katun.

The Anui has no major tributaries. Riverside are no cities, but the larger settlements and Rajonverwaltungszentren Soloneschnoje and Petropawlowskoje.

Hydrography

The catchment area of ​​6930 km ² comprises Anui.

The mean annual river discharge is at Starotyryschkino, about 10 kilometers above the mouth of 36.1 m³ / s with a monthly minimum of 6.9 m³ / s in February and a maximum of 123 m³ / s in April.

Above the mouth of the Anui is up to 100 meters wide and up to two feet deep; its flow rate is here 0.7 m / s

The Anui freezes from November to April.

Infrastructure

The Anui is not navigable.

The traversed by Anui area, particularly in the area of ​​intensively farmed Altai foreland is relatively densely populated; are many villages on its banks. It is accessed through a series partly unpaved roads, such as Istok of Bystry ( Rajonzentrum on Ob) over Petropawlowskoje to Ust- Kalmanka ( Rajonzentrum on Charysh ) or Soloneschnoje upstream to the upper reaches of the Anui and continue to Ust- Kan.

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