Nerl River (Volga)
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The Nerl River (Russian: Нерль) is a river in the Yaroslavl and Tver Oblasts in Russia, a right tributary of the Volga River. The length of the river is 112 km (69 miles). The area of its basin is 3,270 sq km (1,260 sq mi). It originates in the Lake Pleshcheyevo under the name of Veksa-Pleshcheyevskaya and enters the Volga in Sknyatino. The Nerl River freezes up in November and stays under the ice until April.
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| Tributaries: Tvertsa • Shosha • Dubna • Medveditsa • Nerl • Kashinka • Mologa • Sheksna • Kotorosl • Kostroma • Unzha • Uzola • Oka • Kerzhenets • Sura • Vetluga • Sviyaga • Kazanka • Kama • Samara • Akhtuba (distributary) | |||
| Reservoirs: Volga Lake • Ivankovo • Uglich • Rybinsk • Gorky • Cheboksary • Kuybyshev • Saratov • Volgograd | |||
| Hydroelectric stations: Uglich • Rybinsk • Nizhny Novgorod • Cheboksary • Zhigulyov • Saratov • Volga | |||
