The tributaries of the Don. The left tributary of the Don

Don, one of the largest rivers in Europe with a length of 1870 km, flows into the Taganrog Gulf of the Azov Sea. The source is located on the northern slopes of the Central Russian Upland in the Tula region, near Novomoskovsk, and is called the creek Urvanka. Don (in the ancient Tanais) is the fourth in this continent after the Volga, the Danube and the Dnieper. To a brief description, you can add that his valley is at an altitude of 180 meters above sea level, and on its shores there are two cities with a population of more than a million people - Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don. All the tributaries of the Don are surprisingly picturesque.

In Russia, everything is measured in thousands

5255 rivers and streams - the tributaries of the Don, which it takes on its entire length.

Their total length is 60100 km. The vast pool of this river, equal to 422,000 square kilometers, is located on the East European Plain. Don with all its tributaries captures 12 regions of Russia, part of Kalmykia, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories. There are also three regions of Ukraine.

The largest tributaries of the Don are themselves rather large rivers - Seversky Donets (length of 1099 km) and Khopyor (980 km), Sal (798 km) and Medveditsa (745 km). Further, the rivers are less long - Pine and Beautiful Sword, Nepryadva and Manych. And also Black Kalitva and Bogucharka, Bityug, Ilovlya, Voronezh and thousands of other rivers, streams and streams - all these tributaries of the Don River. The right ones deserve consideration first of all, if only because among them is one of the major rivers of Ukraine - Seversky Donets.

Right tributaries

But, to proceed to its description, it should be noted that the uppermost right tributary is a small water artery flowing through the three regions of the Voronezh region, the 89-km-long Devitsa River. About it you can say that the road of federal significance passes through one of its bridges. In the lower reaches for 100 years the extraction of refractory clay, which could not but affect the surrounding landscape and the whole water basin of this river, over an area of 1520 square meters. Km. The larger tributaries of the river Don, located on the right, before the confluence of the Seversky Donets: Beautiful Sword, Pine, Chir.

The first of them, the Beautiful Sword, is a water artery flowing through the Tula and Lipetsk regions, a length of 244 km, with a 6,000-square-meter pool. Km. Replenishes due to melting snow. It flows along the east of the Central Russian Upland. The places here are very beautiful, especially from the village of Vyazovo. And all that is beautiful, it is customary to call Switzerland. These blessed lands are also referred to as Russian Switzerland. They are also called Svyatogorye.

Beautiful, plain, Russian ...

No less beautiful is the right tributary of the Don - Pine or Rapid Pine, a river with a length of 296 km, with a pool of 17.4 thousand square meters. Km. It flows through the territories of the Oryol and Lipetsk regions. Closer to the lower reaches of the Don is Chir, whose length is 317 km, and the pool covers 12,4 thousand square meters. Km. The river flows through the territories of the Rostov and Volgograd regions and flows into the Tsimlyansk reservoir. It is interesting in that, presumably, the battle of the legendary Igor with the Polovtsians took place in its lower reaches. It should be noted that all tributaries of the Don are flat, meandering rivers with a moderate current.

"The beauty of the coastal temples brings with it peace ..."

Nor is Seversky Donets an exception, which Herodotus wrote about, calling him Sirgis. It is a large river of the south of the East European Plain and the largest waterway of Eastern Ukraine. On the picturesque banks of this beauty Catherine II also stopped. 3000 rivers and streams are in the Seversky Donets basin, and 1000 flows into it directly. The valley of the river is wider on a larger stretch. On the shores there are lakes (the largest is Liman), wetlands. This water artery supplies drinking water to the large industrial centers of Donbass. Extraordinarily beautiful is Seversky Donets in the Svyatogorsk district, which houses the Holy Assumption Monastery. Along the coast there are numerous recreation centers and sanatoriums. The coasts are covered with forests in which relict rocks are encountered, for example, the Cretaceous pine, which is threatened with complete extinction. The last more or less large lower right tributary is the river Aksai, into which flows a water stream called Tuzlov.

Left tributaries

The uppermost tributary of the river is the Sal (Rostov region), which arose as a result of the merger of Juryuk-Sal and Kara-Sala. Its length is 798 km, the pool - 21,3 thousand square meters. Km. And the largest left tributary of the Don is the Hoper River, flowing through the territories of the Penza and Saratov, Voronezh and Volgograd regions. The area of its basin is 61.1 square kilometers. The source is in the center of the Penza region, on the Volga Upland. Flowing in the south-west direction, near the station Ust-Kopyorskaya, the river flows into the Don. The location of the river basin is the southeast of the Russian Plain, the Russian platform. And its dimensions, speaking of the endless Russian expanses, are 1.5 times larger than the area of Switzerland. And this is not the largest inflow of the largest Russian river Don. Hopper is navigable from the town of Novokhopersk to the mouth.

From the middle current to the delta

Attention deserves another left tributary of the Don - the Medveditsa River, a length of 745 km. And with a pool of 34,700 square meters. Km. Its source is in the Saratov region. Bear is interesting because its banks are covered with forests with rich flora and fauna. Water abounds in fish - until the end of the 80s, there was a large number of sterlets. The river is not navigable, as there are a lot of ruts and shoals on it. Along the coast there are many lakes, Ericks and wetlands. In these places, wonderful hunting and fishing.

The left tributary of the Don - Manych River, or the Western Manych, is 219 km long and has a basin area of 35,400 sq. Km. Km. It receives water from the Kuban River through the canals , and all this mass of water is used for irrigation of the land, as the territory of the Don River basin is rich in excellent chernozem. Of course, along the entire water flow, there are many reservoirs (the largest Tsimlyanskoe) and power stations. The last left tributary of the Don River, giving it its waters, is the Koisug river flowing from the Koisug lake. Further - the mouth, which is the delta of the Don, inferior in magnitude Kuban. On an area of 538 square meters. There are 3 lakes, floodplains and dug-out spawning grounds. Here is a wonderful fishing and duck hunting.