Vishera River (Perm Krai)
Comb Tulymski Kamen left of Wischera - upper reaches
Position of Wischera ( Вишера ) in the catchment area of the Kama
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The Visher (Russian Вишера ) is a 415 km long left tributary of the Kama in the Urals and its western foreland (Russia).
Course
The Wischera rises about 800 meters above sea level on the western flank of here Pojassowy Kamen said, almost 1200 meters high main ridge of the Northern Urals. The source is located in the extreme northeast of the Perm region. Next flowing through the Wischera in southern and southwestern directions the northern Urals and along its western foot, past the highest with 1496 meters of elevation of the Perm region Tulymski Kamen, partially as a fast mountain river in a narrow valley. At its entire length, the Wischera flows on the territory of the Perm region, up to its confluence with the Kama here to Kamastausee accumulated about 25 kilometers northwest of Solikamsk.
Hydrography
The catchment area of 31,200 km ² comprises Wischera.
The main tributaries are from the right and from the left Kolva the Jaswa. Below the Kolwamündung, above the dammed section in estuary near the Wischera is about 250 meters wide and up to three feet deep; its flow rate here is 0.5 m / s
The Wischera freezes between late October / early November to late April.
Infrastructure
The Wischera is navigable in the middle and lower reaches and is regularly up Krasnovishersk, the only town on the river, busy.
The largest part of the carrying of the Wischera area is very sparsely populated. Paved roads are available only in the extreme south of the catchment area until after Krasnovishersk and environment.
History and national heritage
On tributary Kolva is close its mouth in the Wischera the old city Tscherdyn.
In the catchment area of the Wischera WischeraLag was in the 1930s to the 1950s in the system of Gulag prison camp.
241.200 acres of the headwaters and upper reaches of the Wischera were asked in 1991 as Wischera - Sapowednik and conservation. The administration of the Sapowedniks located in Krasnovishersk.