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Sukhona
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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 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

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
river
Country
Russia
Located in
Vologda Oblast
Image
Suchona1.jpg
Length
558
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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
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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • 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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