Oskol River

Course of the Oskol ( Оскол ) in the catchment area of the Seversky Donets

The Oskol (Russian Оскол ) or Oskil (Ukrainian Оскіл ) is a 472 km long left tributary of the Seversky Donets in Ukraine and in Russia.

The Oskol springs on the center plate in the Russian Kursk Oblast. It flows mainly in the south. He runs through the Russian Belgorod Oblast and the Ukrainian Oblast Kharkiv. The Oskol Stary Oskol flows from coming in up to 130 km ² Tscherwonooskilsker reservoir and flows twelve kilometers below the associated hydroelectric power plant on the left into the Seversky Donets, where he briefly formed the border of the Donetsk Oblast in the lower reaches. The river has a length of 472 km and a catchment area of ​​14,800 km ². The Oskol is mainly fed by snowmelt. Between late March and early May, the river is flooding. 9.5 km above the mouth of the mean discharge ( MQ ) 44.2 m³ / s