Chulym River (Malye Chany Lake)

Catchment area of ​​the Tchanysee

Chulym River, about Starogornostalevo, Novosibirsk Region

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The 392 km long Chulym (Russian Чулым ) is a river in the endorheic basin of Tschanysees in the southeast of the West Siberian Lowland (Russia, Asia).

The Chulym arises from several source fluxes in the swamps Toiskoje Saimischtsche ( Тойское Займище ) and Troschinskoje Saimischtsche ( Трошинское Займище ) north of the Barabasteppe, about 100 km north-west of Novosibirsk, at about 150 m above sea level. NN. It crosses the Barabasteppe - always on the territory of Novosibirsk Oblast - in a southwesterly direction, flows in the lower reaches the lakes Sargul ( Саргуль, area 34.6 km ²) and Urjum ( Урюм, 84.1 km ² ), and finally ends at 106 m above sea level. NN in the lake little Tschanysee ( Малые Чаны / Malyje Chany ), which in turn communicates with the Tschanysee in connection or represents its southeastern continuation.

The catchment area of ​​17,900 km ² comprises Chulym. In the lower reaches of the river is about 30 m wide, up to 5 m deep, the flow velocity is 0.1 m / s The main tributaries are, from left Suma ( Сума ) and only a few kilometers from the mouth of the Kargat in the Chany, from the right Kargat.

At the headwaters of the river is named after the river town Chulym. Here the river of the Trans-Siberian railway and the highway is crossed M51.

The Chulym freezes from November to April / early May.

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