Suda River

In the lower reaches of the Suda

Location of the Suda ( Суда ) in the catchment of the Rybinsk Reservoir

The Suda (Russian Суда ) is a 184 km long tributary of the Rybinsk Reservoir of the Volga River in the European part of Russia.

Course

The Suda is produced in 162 m altitude in the western part of the Vologda Oblast, about 100 miles as the crow flies west of the city Belozersk from the headwaters Koloschma from the right and from the left Noschema. The approximately 100 kilometers long, larger Koloschma entfließt the lake Matkosero on the border of Leningrad Oblast, and is partially attributed to the Suda as its upper reaches. The Noschema is 81 km long. At its entire length by the Suda flows in a southeasterly, increasingly easterly direction the plane Mologa - Scheksna lowlands, which is characterized by rain bogs and pine forests. You finally joins up with the same named settlement Suda, about 20 kilometers west of the city Cherepovets, in the northern end of the Rybinsk Reservoir of the Volga.

Above the mouth of the Suda reaches a width of less than 100 meters at a depth of two meters. Where the flow rate is 0.2 m / s The lower portion of the Suda gradually changes into the dam area of ​​the lake, so that the former river widens there until about two kilometers. Until the flooding of the Rybinsk Reservoir in the 1940s, the Suda led about ten kilometers down, a little less than Tscherepowez from the right in the Scheksna ( s approximate location specified coordinate of the mouth ).

The most important tributaries are Kolp (length 254 km), and Woron Petuch of right and Schogda and Andoga (142 km) from the left.

Hydrology

The catchment area of the river comprises 13,500 km ².

The mean annual runoff is in estuary near 134 m³ / s Between late October and early December, the Suda freezes; during snowmelt in April to early May it leads floods.

Use and infrastructure

The Suda is navigable only in the lower reaches. Previously it was used for timber floating.

Takes you through a total of only sparsely populated area. The largest of the villages in the upper reaches is Borissowo - Sudskoje, which is reached by a road from the Rajonverwaltungszentrum Babayevo. In the middle reaches, which leads through the wetlands of Mologa - Scheksna lowlands, there are few, smaller villages. The largest town a few kilometers from the river is the urban-type settlement and center of the homonymous Rajons Kadui. There, the Tscherepowezker thermal power plant, whose purposes the right ( south ) of the Suda was born in the 1970s is a 3 km ² Kühlwassersee been created, the fed by the river and its water level is regulated by a dam on the river.

In estuaries near the Suda is crossed by the railway line ( more than 2 km long causeway bridge combination ) and the A114 trunk road linking St. Petersburg and Vologda.

The Suda is due to their quiet run through with the exception of the lower reaches of natural landscape in relatively good accessibility of a popular canoeing hiking area.