Kubnya River

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The Kubnja (Russian Кубня, Кĕтне Chuvash, Tatar Гөбенә / Göbenä ) is a 176 km long left tributary of the Sviyaga in the European part of Russia.

Course

The Kubnja rises in the northern Volga heights in the southern center of the Chuvash Republic. It flows in a north-easterly direction, first the forested landscape before it enters a few kilometers from the border with the Republic of Tatarstan in the open steppe.

The river now runs largely along the border between Tatarstan and Chuvashia and marked here and there with his run this limit. In this area lead several of its larger tributaries such as Al, Uta and Urjum, the largest of the tributaries, a.

Approximately 30 km east of Kanash crosses the Kubnja the border for the last time and now flows to its mouth only to Tatar territory. Here she turns to the east and reaches a few kilometers north of the Burunduki Sviyaga, about 20 km from its mouth into the Volga.

Tourism and Ecology

The Kubnja is mainly fed by rain. In the ice-free season, which lasts on average from April to the end of November / beginning of December, the river is popular with boaters, hikers.

A problem for the ecology of the Kubnja is the increasing deforestation and agricultural use within its catchment area, especially by the agricultural holding OAO Krasny Vostok Agro, one of the largest agricultural production facilities in Europe.