Chumysh River
Tschumysch Winter (2005)
Course of Tschumysch ( Чумыш ) in the southeastern basin of the Ob
The Tschumysch (Russian Чумыш ) is a 644 km long right tributary of the Ob in western Siberia (Russia, Asia).
Course
The Tschumysch arises in height of 290 m in the southeastern part of the Salairrückens, about 40 km southwest of the city Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovo Oblast, from the headwaters of Kara- Tschumysch and Tom Tschumysch. Both source rivers, 173 km long Kara- Tschumysch ( "Black Tschumysch " ) from the left and the 110 km long tom Tschumysch from the right, rise about 60 km as the crow to the northwest, at the level of the big city Kisseljowsk. From its source it flows approximately parallel to the axis of the mountain ridge in a south-easterly direction to the confluence, the Kara- Tschumysch on the northeastern edge of the mountain to the Kuznetsk Basin, closer to the cities Kisseljowsk and Prokopjewsk, the Tom - Tschumysch populated in the little and densely forested central part of the mountains near the border with region Altai.
After the confluence of the Tschumysch Salair Bergland crosses in several wide curves and leaves it in a southwesterly direction. In the lowlands, which occupies the eastern part of the Altai region to Salairrücken, he then flows in a wide valley, which is distinguished from that of Whether through the flat Bijsk - Tschumysch - ridge, in a northwesterly direction. It flows north-western end of the ridge, turns to the southwest and finally ends at the village of Ust- Tschumysch, about 50 kilometers north- west of the regional administration center Barnaul in there more than 500 meters wide Ob. At its entire length, especially in the lowlands section Tschumysch meanders strong. In mouth close he is about 150 meters wide and 2.5 meters deep; its flow rate is here 0.5 m / s
The most important tributaries are Uksunai (length 165 km), Sungai (103 km), Alambai (140 km), Kamenka (78 km) and Talmenka (99 km) from the right and Sary- Tschumysch (98 km; "Yellow Tschumysch " ) and Taraba (70 km) from the left.
Riverside is the town Sarinsk, the urban-type settlement Talmenka and a number of larger villages, including the Rajonverwaltungszentren Jelzowka and Kytmanowo, all in the Altai region, while the much shorter section of Tschumysch in the Kemerovo Oblast through sparsely populated mountainous country with only a few localities leads.
Hydrology
The catchment area of 23,900 km ² comprises Tschumysch. The river freezes from the first half of November until the second April Häfte.
In Talmenka, 74 km upstream of the mouth, the average annual river discharge is 131 m³ / s at a minimum of 30.9 m³ / s in February and a maximum of 540 m³ / s in May.
Use and infrastructure
The Tschumysch is navigable for 196 km for smaller vehicles from the pier Sacharowo to the mouth, but does not apply today as an inland waterway.
Barnaul and Novosibirsk leading to the Altai Mountains and the Mongolian border highway M52 ( " chuya tract " ) the river, a few kilometers downstream the route of the Central Siberian Railway Omsk - - For Talmenka the railway Novosibirsk cross Karassuk - Srednesibirskaja. The middle reaches of the river from Talmenka follows up below the village Schatunowo where it crosses the river and leaves the highway " Altai - Kuzbass " the Tschumysch that in the 1990s, on the prepared route a not -built extension of the central Siberian railway eastwards was built. In the city Sarinsk the flow of the railway line is Barnaul - Novokuznetsk crossed. Along the river, where it extends to the northeast of the Altai region be tapped between Salessowo and Martynowo R367 regional road which crosses it in Sarinsk and Kytmanowo. Further upstream, crosses the Tschumysch at Martynowo and Jelzowka the regional road R366 from Bijsk to Novokuznetsk.