Kazim River

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Course of Kasym ( Казым ) in the north of the catchment area of the Ob

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The Kasym (Russian Казым ) is a 659 km long right tributary of the Ob in the West Siberian Plain in Russia.

Course

The Kasym entfließt to 136 m height a wetland around the lake Kasym -Tai -Lor on the northern flank of the Siberian ridge ( Sibirskije Uwaly ) in the northwestern part of the Central West Siberian Plain. It flows through the first few kilometers to the north, then along its entire length is always on the territory of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Yugra the swampy and lake-rich lowlands in the west. He finally ends in 7 m in the right arm of the Ob, the Great Ob ( Bolschaja Ob), after he had already about 40 km before united under the settlement Polnowat with the Ob - arm Sudochodnaja ( " Navigable Whether " ) and parallel had flowed to whether the north.

The most important tributaries of the Kasym are Amnja and Lychn from the left and from the right Sorum.

Hydrographic

The catchment area of ​​35,600 km ² comprises Kasym. In the mouth area, below the confluence with the Sudochodnaja Whether the river reaches a width of nearly 500 m at a depth of 5 m; the flow rate here is 0.5 m / s

The Kasym freezes from early November until the second half of May. The Drainage of Yuilsk the upper middle reaches, 417 km above the mouth, is an annual average of 76.7 m³ / s with a minimum of 21.7 m³ / s in March and a maximum of 191 m³ / s in June, in estuary near the annual average 267 m³ / s

Infrastructure and economy

The river is navigable for 180 km from the settlement Werchnekasymski.

The catchment area of ​​the Kasym is the main settlement area of ​​the northern group of chanting. The economic development of part of the area traversed by the Kasym began with the discovery of the West Siberian petroleum and natural gas reserves from the 1970s. At the lower-middle reaches of the river, the city Beloyarsky arose; multiple pipelines cross the river.

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