Pyshma River

At the upper reaches of the Pyshma (early color photo of Prokudin-Gorsky, 1912)

Position of Pyshma ( Пышма ) in the catchment of Tobol

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The Pyshma (Russian Пышма ) is a 603 km long right tributary of Tura in Siberia (Russia, Asia).

The Pyshma rises approximately 290 meters above sea level on the eastern flank of the Middle Urals in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, immediately north of Yekaterinburg. The river flows through the western part of the West Siberian Plain, initially on the territory of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Tyumen Oblast and later the finally ends at the village Sosonowo, about 40 kilometers east of Tyumen in the Tura ( at 46 m height). In the lower reaches of the river meanders strong. He is here about 50 feet wide, three feet deep, and the flow rate is 0.2 m / s

The catchment area of ​​19,700 km ² comprises Pyshma. The average monthly water flow is 34 m³ / s ( maximum 1 300 m³ / s, minimum of 2 m³ / s). The main tributaries are right Kunara and Bolschaja Kalinowka, left the Reft.

In Saretschny the Pyshma is dammed to Belojarskoje Reservoir, which is used for water supply of the nuclear power plant Beloyarskaya.

The Pyshma freezes from the first half of November until the second half of April.

The Trans-Siberian Railway follows between Yekaterinburg and Tyumen about the course of the Pyshma and crossing it twice ( at kilometer in 1944 and 2166 from Moscow).

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