Sukhona
Sign in to savethumb|Map of the Northern Dvina basin. The Sukhona is shown on the map. right|thumb|The Northern Dvina starts as the confluence of the Yug (left) and the Sukhona (top) in the town of [[Veliky Ustyug]] The Sukhona () is a river in the European part of Russia, a tributary of the Northern Dvina. The course of the Sukhona lies in Ust-Kubinsky, Sokolsky, Mezhdurechensky, Totemsky, Tarnogsky, Nyuksensky, and Velikoustyugsky Districts of Vologda Oblast in Russia. It is long, and the area of its basin . The Sukhona joins the Yug near the town of Veliky Ustyug, forming the Northern Dvina, one of the bi
Key facts
- River.name
- Sukhona
- River.image
- Suhona, Opoki.JPG
- River.image_caption
- The Sukhona in the locality of Opoki
- River.mouth
- Northern Dvina
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.length_km
- 558
- River.basin_size_km2
- 50300
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Vologda Oblast
- Image
- Suchona1.jpg
- Length
- 558
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- tributary
- Verkhnyaya Tozma
- mouth of the watercourse
- Northern Dvina
- Commons category
- Sukhona River
- category for the water basin
- Category:Sukhona Basin
- watershed area
- 50300
- discharge
- 456
- origin of the watercourse
- Kubenskoe
- slope
- 0.11
- inflows
- Northern Dvina Canal
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Physical geography
- Tributaries
- Navigation and canals
- History
- References
- External links
thumb|Map of the Northern Dvina basin. The Sukhona is shown on the map. right|thumb|The Northern Dvina starts as the confluence of the Yug (left) and the Sukhona (top) in the town of [[Veliky Ustyug]] The Sukhona () is a river in the European part of Russia, a tributary of the Northern Dvina. The course of the Sukhona lies in Ust-Kubinsky, Sokolsky, Mezhdurechensky, Totemsky, Tarnogsky, Nyuksensky, and Velikoustyugsky Districts of Vologda Oblast in Russia. It is long, and the area of its basin . The Sukhona joins the Yug near the town of Veliky Ustyug, forming the Northern Dvina, one of the biggest rivers of European Russia.
The biggest tributaries of the Sukhona are the Vologda (right), the Lezha (right), the Pelshma (left), the Dvinitsa (left), the Tolshma (right), the Tsaryova (left), the Uftyuga (left), and the Gorodishna (right).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sukhona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
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