Samara River

Bridge over the Samara in Samara near the mouth

The Samara seen from space. The left are the Volga, at the lower right edge of the Ural River

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The Samara (Russian Самара ) is a left, 594 km long tributary of the Volga River in the southeast of the European part of Russia.

Course

The Samara rises south-west of the Ural Mountains north-west of Orenburg Oblast in the same name, in the range of hills Obschtschi Syrt which forms the watershed of the Ural Mountains here. First it flows south, but turn after a few miles in predominantly western direction.

To the north of the settlement of a Nowosergijewka opens Kuwai and Samara turns to the northwest. Shortly before Sorochinsk opens out the Great uranium. The river flows on through the agricultural steppe landscape.

Just before they reached Busuluk, the Samara to Tok and the Busuluk absorbs. A few kilometers after the town flows the Domaschka one. In Koltubanowski, just after the junction with the Borovka the river reaches the border of the Samara Oblast.

The Samara is now flowing in predominantly western direction through the eastern Samara Oblast. Northwest of Neftegorsk it turns to the northwest, before it in a wide arc flows to the confluence of the Great Kinel southwest to Samara, where it flows into the accumulated Saratov to Volga reservoir.

In the ice-free period from mid-April to November, the Samara is navigable for 41 km.