Vashka River

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Course of Waschka (English Vashka ) in the catchment area of the mesas

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The Waschka (Russian Вашка, formerly Важка ) is a 605 km long left tributary of the mesas in the northeast of the European part of Russia.

Course

The Waschka entfließt in about 175 m altitude swamps in the area of the watershed between the river systems of the mesas and the Northern Dvina. The source is located in the extreme west of the Komi Republic, about 50 km north- west of the village Jarensk, a former, already located in the Arkhangelsk Oblast in the Vychegda city. A few miles below the source of the river crosses the small Waschkaty Lake and then continues to flow mainly north through sparsely populated taiga area, mostly strongly meandering. In the middle reaches of the Waschka turns in a northwesterly direction, reached later, the territory of the Arkhangelsk Oblast and flows slightly below the Selo and Rajonverwaltungszentrums Leschukonskoje in 23 m height as the most important of inflow into the mesas.

The main tributaries are Loptjuga, Jowwa and Sodsim of right and Jortom, coup coma and Syrjanskaja Jeschuga from the left. In the catchment area of the river there are about 900 lakes.

Hydrographic

The catchment area of ​​21,000 km ² comprises Waschka. In estuaries near the river reaches a width of more than 250 meters at a depth of about meters; the flow rate is in this case 0.6 m / s

The Waschka freezes from late October to early May. The water flow at the measuring point Reschelskaja, 58 km above the mouth, is an annual average of 186 m³ / s with a minimum monthly average of 26.6 m³ / s in March and a maximum monthly average of 871 m³ / s in May.

Infrastructure

The Waschka is navigable for over 350 miles from the village of Ust- Watscherga, but only for small vehicles in high water because the river is heavily silted. Thus, only 85 km from the village Keba apply to the mouth as an inland waterway.

Cities, there are not along the river, but a number of larger settlements.

The most important place near the river on the territory of the Republic of Komi is the urban-type settlement Blagojewo, which initially arose as a base for Bulgarian forest workers since 1968 and, therefore, in honor of the Bulgarian Dimitar Blagoev Social Democrats ( Russian Transliteration Blagoev ) was named. Later, still not consistently completed road from Syktyvkar about Mikun, Ussogorsk and Karpogory to Arkhangelsk was led through the town, and the bridge over the Waschka the road was named the bridge of friendship between the USSR and the People's Republic of Bulgaria (Most Druschby SSSR i BNR ). Four kilometers north of the village is the railway station Wend Inga, end of an outgoing of Mikun on the Pechora railway branch line ( 40 km from Wendover Inga shares the route, and the other road leads to the Koslan also only about 40 km away on the here flowing parallel mesas ). The station is named after the already mentioned for the first time in 1485, located right on the river Komi village Wend Inga. The connection of railways Mikun - Wend Inga and Archangel - Karpogory (at the Pinega ) by construction of some 200 km of the remaining portion was since the 1970s and over again in conversation, most recently in the context of Belkomur project ( Russian acronym for white sea - Komi Urals; Beloje More- Komi -Ural ) a direct railway line Perm - to be provided Arkhangelsk, for the government of the Russian investment Fund may be 118 billion rubles ( just over 3 billion euros ) - Syktyvkar. The railway line on the left bank of the west Waschka Wend Inga is traced out for miles since the 1980s, the construction of a bridge but have not been tackled.

Greatest place on the river in the Arkhangelsk Oblast is Leschukonskoje near the mouth, which is connected by a road along the right bank of the mesas with the City of mesas on the lower reaches of the river.