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| Chusovaya River |
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View of the river in the 1910s. Maksimovsky rock.
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| Origin |
Central Ural |
| Mouth |
Kamsky Reservoir |
| Basin countries |
Russia |
| Length |
592 km |
| Avg. discharge |
222 m³/s |
| Basin area |
23,000 km² |
Chusovaya River (Russian: Чусова́я), a river in Perm Krai, Sverdlovsk Oblast and Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia, a tributary of the Kama River. Its length is 592 km. The area of the basin is 23,000 km². It flows into the Chusovoy Cove of the Kamsky Reservoir. The floods usually take place from mid-April to mid-June. The Chusovaya River freezes up between late October-early December and stays under the ice until mid-April–first weeks of May. Its principal tributaries are Mezhevaya Utka, Serebryanka, Koyva, Usva, Revda, and Lysva. The Chusovaya River is widely used for water supply: its water is moved from the Volchikhinsky Reservoir (37 sq km) to the Verkhneisetsky Reservoir to supply Yekaterinburg. Its tributaries have fifteen small reservoirs, as well. Main ports are Perm and Chusovoy.
The Chusovaya River is famous for its huge shore rocks. One of those rocks (small-sized one) is depicted on photo. Some rocks were very dangerous for boats during spring tide and were called Boytsy (бойцы, lit. fighters). Most of them have their own names.
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