Bolshaya Kokshaga River

The Great Kokschaga

Location of the Great Kokschaga ( Бол. Кокшага ) in the catchment area of the Volga

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The Great Kokschaga (Russian Большая Кокшага ( Bolschaja Kokschaga ), mari Кугу Какшан ) is a 297 km long left tributary of the Volga River in the European part of Russia.

Description

The Great Kokschaga rises about 2 km northeast of the settlement Kokschaga in the southwest of the Kirov Oblast, near the border with the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. It flows from there very winding south through sparsely populated area. About 20 km north- west of Yoshkar -Ola it reaches the Republic of Mari El.

After the confluence of the Great Kundysch, its largest tributary, she turns for a few kilometers to the southeast, before they turn flows south. 5km north-west of its confluence with the Volga they pass under the highway Vyatka. Opposite the Mariinsky Posad they finally reached the pent-up to Kuibyshev Reservoir Volga, which forms the border between the republics of Mari El and Chuvashia here.

The Great Kokschaga is frozen from November until April. In Mari El, the river flows through the Sapowednik (nature reserve ) Large Kokschaga.