Sura River

The Sura at Alatyr

The location of the Sura in the river system of the Volga

Wasilsursk at the mouth of the Sura

Catchment area of ​​the Sura with inflows

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The Sura (Russian Сура, ersjan. Сура лей, Chuvash Сăр ) is a 841 km long right tributary of the Volga River in the European part of Russia.

It rises near the village Surski Werschiny in the far west of the Ulyanovsk Oblast in the Volga River northeast of Kuznetsk plate. Without touching Kuznetsk, she turns from their source to the west in the Penza Oblast. Above and east of Penza it is in the reservoir Surskoje More ( Сурское море ) dammed for irrigation purposes, among other things, bowing before Pensa to the north.

In this direction, the Sura flows through the hills of the Volga plate in the republics of Mordovia and Chuvashia and the Ulyanovsk oblasts and Nizhny Novgorod. At times, it forms the natural border between Mordovia and Ulyanovsk Oblast, and later between the Chuvash and the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. On their last kilometers of the border between Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Republic of Mari El runs. Then it opens below Jadrin or above from lying on the Volga Kosmodemjansk in 1980-1982 built Tscheboksarsker reservoir. The river is the port Wasilsursk at the mouth to approximately 394 km length of navigable. The water of the Sura is also used industrially in addition to irrigation. The largest city on the banks of the Sura is Penza, more cities are Alatyr and Schumerlja.