Main source Bugulma-Belebey Hills Mouth Kuybyshev Reservoir | Length 336 km Country Russia | |
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River mouth Kuybyshev Reservoir, Volga
53 m (174 ft) Basin size 11,500 km (4,400 sq mi) Discharge Average rate:
1,660 m/s (59,000 cu ft/s) (maximal) | ||
Bolshoy Cheremshan (Russian: Большой Черемшан, literally Greater Cheremshan, Tatar: Олы Чирмешән, Olı Çirmeşän) is a river in Russia, a left tributary of the Volga between the Kama River and Samara River. It flows southwest to the Volga near Dimitrovgrad. The main inflows are the Bolshaya Sulcha and Maly Cheremshan. The maximal discharge is 1,660 cubic metres per second (59,000 cu ft/s) (1979), and the minimal mineralization is 600-800 mg/l. The riverbed is meandering and the meadows are wide. From around 1650 the Trans-Kama Line of forts ran along or near the Cheremshan.
Map of r. Bolshoy Cheremshan, Samara Oblast, Russia
References
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