Berd River

Berdsk with the pent- Berd

Mouth of the right tributary berths at Morosowo in the Berdbucht

The 363 km long Berd (Russian Бердь fem, ) is a right tributary of the Ob on the southeastern edge of the West Siberian Lowland (Russia, Asia).

Course

The Berd rises on the main ridge of the Salairrückens in the Kemerovo Oblast in 440 m height and reached immediately after the territory of the Altai region. First, it flows - the largest part of the territory of the Oblast Novosibirsk - in a wide valley meandering in western to north-western directions and finally joins up with Berdsk in the Ob, which is dammed here for the Novosibirsk reservoir ( water level at 113 m). The backwater the Berd upwards, the Berdbucht ( Бердский залив / Berdski saliw ), has a length of 40 km (up Iskitim ) and a width of up to 3 km. The length of the Berd before the establishment of the Novosibirsk reservoir was 416 km.

Hydrographic

The catchment area of ​​8650 km ² comprises Berd. In Iskitim, 40 km from the mouth, the average discharge is 45.8 m³ / s ( minimum in February with 10.9 m³ / s, maximum in May with 183 m³ / s). Above the confluence with the Novosibirsk reservoir, the river is about 75 m wide, 1.7 m deep, the flow velocity is 0.5 m / s The main tributaries are right Suenga ( Суэнга ) and Ik ( Ик ).

The Berd freezes from early November to mid-April.

Economy and infrastructure

The Berd is not navigable, but was formerly used for timber floating.

12 km above the settlement Masljanino, built a small reservoir with hydroelectric power station at the village Perebor after a 1934 decision taken in 1947-1951. The power plant had built a power output of 600 kilowatts. Up for connection to the national grid, the system of the electric power supply of the Rajons served, after which it was dismantled. The dam ( ⊙ 54.32166666666784.398611111111 ) is retained.

Along the Berd the industrial cities and Berdsk Iskitim where the river from the railway Novosibirsk - Barnaul and the highway M52 is crossed Novosibirsk -Mongolian border ( chuya tract).