Also known as Ik River
river in Tatarstan, Bashkiria, and Orenburg Oblast, Russia
Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Location
- Bugulma-Belebey Hills
- Mouth
- Kama
- Length
- 571 km (355 mi)
- Basin size
- 18,100 km (7,000 sq mi)
- Average
- 45.5 m /s (1,610 cu ft/s) (near Nagaybakovo )
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Kama → ‹See Tfd› Volga → Caspian Sea
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- protected area of Russia
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Orenburg Oblast
- Image
- Ik river.jpg
- Length
- 571
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- mouth of the watercourse
- Kama
- Commons category
- Ik River
- watershed area
- 18100
- origin of the watercourse
- Bugulma-Belebey Upland
- discharge
- 45.5
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ik (Russian: Ик; Tatar: Ык, Iq; Bashkir: Ыҡ, Iq) is a river in Russia that flows north to the Kama, joining it from the left. It flows through the Republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan and through Orenburg Oblast. The left tributaries of the Ik are Mellya, Menzelya, Dymka, and the right tributary is Usen. It is 571 kilometres (355 mi) long, and its drainage basin covers 18,100 square kilometres (7,000 mi).
The time difference between Bavly in Tatarstan and Oktyabrsky in Bashkortostan is two hours (Tatarstan uses Moscow Time and Bashkortostan uses Yekaterinburg Time). Therefore, the bridge through Ik (river-border) is jokingly called "the longest bridge in the world".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.