Lovat River

Lovat in Welikije Luki

The Lovat (Russian Ловать ) is a 530 km long tributary of the Ilmen in the northwest of the European part of Russia, as well as a short section in Belarus.

Course

The Lovat entfließt the m in height about 170 directly on the border between Russia and Belarus located small lake Lowatez ( Ловатец ) about 30 miles southeast of downtown Newel. In an approximately 40 km long arc it first flows through several lakes in the extreme northeast of the Belarusian Wizebskaja Woblasz before they again reached the Russian Pskov Oblast. Further, the Lovat flows in the northern and northeastern directions, reached the Novgorod Oblast and the Ilmenniederung and finally flows into the southeastern part of Lake Ilmen, where it forms a 400 m² interior delta together with its tributary Polist and Pola.

Hydrography

The catchment area comprises 21,900 km ² of Lovat. The average monthly water flow is on the middle reaches, in Chelm 193 km above the mouth, 105 m³ / s with a maximum during the spring thaw.

The largest tributaries are Naswa, Loknja and Polist from left and Kunja. The Pola clips the Lovat from the right a few kilometers from their mouths.

Above the Delta, the Lovat is about 300 meters wide and four meters deep; its flow rate here is 0.2 m / s The main branches of the river in the Delta ( Kopanez, Lovat, Staraya Lovat, Baklan, Wergot ) are each between 60 and 160 meters wide.

The Lovat freezes between the end of November / beginning of January and March / April.

Economy and infrastructure

The Lovat is navigable in the lower reaches to about 70 kilometers to the village Tscherentschizy, but will not drive regularly today. In the Middle Ages, however, the " way of the Varangians to the Greeks " was called trade route over the Lovat.

In Welikije Luki the Lovat of the railway lines Moscow -Riga and Bologoje - Vitebsk highway and the M9 is Moscow - Latvian border, and crossed to Riga. On long distances the regional road R51 newel Staraya Russa follows the river until she leaves him in the small town of Chelm in a westerly direction. The lower reaches of the Lovat is crossed at Parfino east of Staraya Russa of the railway Bologoje - Dno - Pskov.