Iput River

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Course of the Iput ( Ипуть ) in the catchment area of the Dnepr (yellow)

The Iput (Russian Ипуть; belarusian Іпуць, Ipuz ) is a 437 km long left tributary of the Sosch in the east of Belarus and western Russia.

The Iput springs near the village Nedwed in Rajon Klimawitschy in the east of the Belarusian Mahiljouskaja Woblasz. They first flows to the northeast and reached after some 20 km from the Russian Smolensk Oblast. There she soon turns to the south, then southwest and maintains this direction on its course to the west of the Central Russian plate, primarily through the Bryansk Oblast, largely at. Section by section meanders of the river strong. In the lower reaches of the Iput reached the northern part of the Dneprniederung again and Belarus, whose Homelskaja Woblasz westward flows through them as little as 40 km, until it finally flows into the Homel Sosch on the eastern edge of the city.

The catchment area of the river comprises 10,900 km ². The most important tributaries are Woroniza (length 74 km), Nadwa (96 km), Woronussa (92 km) and Unecha (105 km ), all from the left. The drain at the level Novye Bobowitschi 109 km above the mouth of the year 83.4 m³ / s The Iput usually freezes between late November and late March / early April.

The largest towns on the river next to Homel are the small towns in Russia and Surasch Dobrusch in Belarus; other population centers in the catchment area are Kletnja, Klintsy, Mglin, Novozybkov, Slynka and Unecha, all in the Russian Bryansk Oblast.