Malaya Kokshaga River

The Small Kokschaga in Yoshkar -Ola

The Small Kokschaga above Yoshkar -Ola

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The Small Kokschaga (Russian Малая Кокшага ( Malaya Kokschaga ), mari Изи Какшан ) is a 194 km long left tributary of the Volga River in the European part of Russia.

Description

The Small Kokschaga rises near the village shura in the north of the Republic of Mari El, near the border with the Kirov Oblast. It flows in a southerly direction through mostly agricultural area.

Shortly after the junction of the Great Oschla it flows through Yoshkar -Ola, the capital of Mari Els Stark meandering it continues to flow south through the sparsely populated, heavily wooded south of the republic.

In Uste - Kundysch opens a her biggest tributary, the Little Kundysch. About 5 km east of the Mariinsky Posad the Small Kokschaga finally flows into the pent-up to Kuibyshev Reservoir Volga, which here marks the border of the Republic Mari El, Chuvashia to.

The Small Kokschaga is average of frozen November to April.