Vym River
The Wym at Serjogowo ( about 20 km above the mouth )
Course of Wym (English Vym ) in the eastern basin of the Northern Dvina
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The Wym (Russian Вымь; fem Russian, German and the Wym ) is a 499 km long right tributary of the Vychegda in the northeast of the European part of Russia.
Course
The Wym rises approximately 320 meters above sea level on the western flank of the Timanrückens, reaching heights of over 350 m in this area. After a short course in a north-westerly to the west, the river turns south and flows through a wide, forested valley with extensive wetlands. Above the confluence of the creek Jolwa there are rapids. In the lower reaches, the Wym turns to the southwest and finally ends at the village of Ust- Wym, some 60 km north-west from Syktyvkar, in 68 m height in the Vychegda, the largest tributary of the Northern Dvina.
At its entire length, the Wym flows on the territory of the autonomous republic of Komi. The main tributaries are Worykwa, Jolwa, Poscheg and Chub from the right and Koin and Wesljana from the left.
Hydrographic
The catchment area of 25,600 km ² comprises Wym. In estuaries near the river reaches a width of about 300 meters at a depth of about 1.5 meters; the flow rate is in this case 0.7 m / s
The Drainage of Ust-Sada/Polowniki, 48 km above the mouth, is an annual average of 260 m³ / s at a minimum of 63.8 m³ / s in March and a maximum of 1 204 m³ / s in May.
Infrastructure
The Wym is navigable from the village Bosch Ju - Dor, beneath the rapids above and below the confluence of Jolwa and Wesljana, 172 km ..
The area in the upper and upper-middle reaches of the river is only sparsely populated. An increasing number of villages there is only on navigable section of the river from the village of Ust- Wesljana. Biggest place is the town Jemwa about 50 km above the mouth. Kotlas - - There the Pechora Railway Konosha Vorkuta crosses the river. Immediately above the mouth crosses the branching from the Pechora railway track Mikun - Syktyvkar the Wym. Between mouth and Jemwa follows the road from Syktyvkar in the direction Uchta the left (east ) bank of the river.