Uvod River

The flood leading Uwod near Kovrov

Position of Uwod ( Уводь ) in the catchment area of the Oka

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The Uwod (Russian Уводь ) is a 185 km long left tributary of the Klyazma in the European part of Russia.

Course

The Uwod originates in a swampy area near the village Piszowo in the Western Ivanovo. From there it flows eastwards through hilly, boggy ground before it joins up after just a few kilometers in the Uwod Reservoir ( Uwodskoje Wodochranilischtsche, Russian Уводьское водохранилище ). The 1937 built, 37 km long reservoir is on average 1.5 km wide and 15 m deep. It is mainly used for water supply of the city of Ivanovo. Since the water of Uwod could not cover the consumption of the city, in 1967, a channel of the Volga River was opened to Uwod.

The river leaves the lake at its south end, right on the border of the urban area of ​​Ivanovo. It flows through the city and takes the Talka and Charinka on. Immediately southeast of Ivanovo flows through the Uwod Kochma, a satellite town of Ivanovo. Below the city, she turns to the south, where its two main tributaries, the 89 km long and 86 km long Uchtochma Wjasma at a distance of just 12 km open out. The river flows through here a forested, rugged valley and deposits due to the decreased flow rate sand on its shores from. He trains a large oxbow lakes and begins increasingly to meander.

About 10 km northwest of Kovrov reached the Uwod the Vladimir Oblast. Here they savaged very strong. She passes the city just north of the urban area and flows a few kilometers later, finally in the Klyazma.

Hydrology and use

The Uwod is fed primarily by snow melt water. She is an average of frozen November to April. 14 From its tributaries are longer than 10 km. The Uwod has an average gradient of 0.198 m / km.

The Ivanovo since the times of Peter the Great is moved textile industry took the Uwod both as a source of domestic water and for the disposal of the resulting waste water. This led to such a strong pollution that in the river, which was known in ancient times for its abundance of fish and its water was used as drinking water, at the end of the 19th century barely lived fish, and people were forced along its course to drill water wells.

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