Pakhra River

The Pachra in Podolsk

The Pachra (Russian Пахра ) is a river in the European part of Russia and a right tributary of the Moskva River in the river system of the Volga.

Description

The Pachra is 135 km long and flows through on its entire course through the territory of Moscow Oblast. It originates in wetlands near the town of Naro- Fominsk, some 70 km south-west of Moscow, the latter bypasses south on a very twisty course and ends at the village Mjatschkowo between cities Lytkarino and Zhukovsky in the Moscow River. The only city that is right on the Pachra, is the city of Podolsk. The largest tributaries are Desna, Motscha and Roschaja, also open a total of about 230 small tributaries and streams in the Pachra, making these increases in their lower reaches a width of up to 40 meters and a depth of eight meters in places.

In addition to the water of these inflows primarily fed meltwater the Pachra. In the period from November or December until March or April, the river freezes over, which in places is no ice cover due to industrial waste water warm even in winter. In the summer months the area around the Pachra due to its scenic attractiveness as a relaxation destination for the people of Moscow is popular: Along both shores there is a variety of Datschensiedlungen, sanatoriums and other leisure and recreational facilities. On the banks of Pachra is also Gorki Leninskiye, a former country estate, the first Soviet leader Lenin served as a suburban residence of the early 1920s.

The hydronym Pachra comes from one of the Finno- Ugric languages ​​that were spoken in present-day Moscow area before the start of colonization by Russians in the 11th century, and is there maybe something like " flowing out of a lake ." In medieval Muscovy the Pachra served as a trade route and is frequented by smaller ships. Today, it is on their entire course as a non- navigable.