Chusovaya River

Early color photograph (1912 ) of the Maximowfelsens at the Chusovaya by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky

Location of the Chusovaya ( Чусовая ) in the catchment area of the Kama

The Chusovaya (Russian Чусовая ) is a 592 km long left tributary of the Kama in the Urals and its western foreland (Russia).

The name of the river is Tschus of the komi permjakischen words for " fast" and wa for " water " derived; the original name was Russified Tschuswa later.

Course

The Chusovaya entfließt approximately 400 m altitude in the Middle Urals the little Tschussowskojesee (Russian Maloye Tschussowskoje Ozero ), approximately ten kilometers north east of the city Werchni Ufalei in the Chelyabinsk Oblast. After a few kilometers, the river flows through the Grand Tschussowskojesee (Russian Bolschoye Tschussowskoje Ozero ) and on the Middle Urals in northern and north-western directions, first by the Sverdlovsk Oblast, the Perm region.

Above Rewda, west of Yekaterinburg Oblasthauptstadt the river to Wechnekomarowo Reservoir is ( Вехнекомаровское водохранилище / Werchnekomarowskoje wodochranilischtsche ) and Woltschicha Reservoir ( Волчихинское водохранилище / Woltschichinskoje wodochranilischtsche, area 37 km ²) accumulated. From the latter a six- kilometer-long channel to the opening into the Upper Iset pond river Reschotka ( Решётка ) was dug to increase the water flow and improving the water supply of Yekaterinburg. This non- navigable channel thus crosses the Continental Divide between the Caspian Sea and the Arctic Ocean, which is the border between Europe and Asia. The reservoir is also a recreation area for residents of Yekaterinburg and the surrounding towns and is therefore also called Sverdlovsk or Ekaterinburg sea.

In the middle reaches from Pervouralsk the valley narrows, the banks are steep and rocky. Above Tschussowoi the Chusovaya turns west, in the city, the valley widens and the river finally flows just north of Perm and the dam of the Kamastausees in the Kama. Approximately 90 km of the lower reaches of the Chusovaya are by the Kamastausee dammed ( water level at 108 m). Above the dam the river is about 200 feet wide, two feet deep and its flow rate is 0.5 m / s In the reservoir itself reaches its width in places, more than two kilometers.

Hydrography

The catchment area of ​​Chusovaya covers 23,000 km ². The average monthly water flow is above the confluence with the Kamastausee 222 m³ / s ( minimum in winter 8.4 m³ / s, maximum during snowmelt 4570 m³ / s). The main tributaries are right Meschewaja Utka, Koiwa and USWA, from left Rewda, Lysva and Sylva.

The Chusovaya freezes between the end of October / beginning of December to April / early May.

Infrastructure

In Rewda and Pervouralsk the Chusovaya is crossed by the railway Kazan Yekaterinburg and the Trans-Siberian railway, Tschussowoi of the former Ural mining railway Permian Kushva ( Goroblagodatskaja ) Yekaterinburg.

Immediately above the mouth of the pent-up Chusovaya is crossed by the railway Permian Kisel with a combination of dam and over 500 meters long bridge and the road Permian Solikamsk with a 1.5 -kilometer bridge.

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