Pronya River (Russia)

Pronja in Rajon Spassk ( Ryazan )

Position of Pronja ( Проня ) in the catchment area of the Oka

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The Pronja (Russian Проня ) is a 336 km long right tributary of the Oka in the European part of Russia.

Course

It rises near the watershed between the river systems of the Volga and the Don in the northeast of the central Russian country back. The source is located about 20 km south of Mikhailov in the southwest of Ryazan Oblast.

First, the river flows through a narrow valley in the north, but after a few kilometers describes a wide curve towards the west and southwest. About 15 kilometers east of Kimowsk it reaches the border of the Tula Oblast. Here it turns north and is dammed to form a reservoir.

Then the Pronja continues to flow in, first northerly direction along the boundary of the oblasts of Tula and Ryazan. West of Oktyabrsky she turns to the east. Shortly after passing through the industrial center, it flows through Mikhailov. She then continues to flow first to the east, then to the southeast.

In Nowomitschurinsk the river is dammed again. Then he happened Korablino in the north, then turns to the north and achieved little south of the Oka Spassk- Rjasanski.

The river is popular with anglers and is in the ice-free season from April to the end of November navigable in its lower reaches.