Techa River
Sign in to savethumb|Map of the Tobol basin. The Techa river (Теча) may be found to the left center, next to the regional ЧЕЛЯБИНСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ (Chelyabinsk Oblast) label. The Techa (, ) is an eastward river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination. It is long, and its basin covers . It begins by the once-secret nuclear processing town of Ozyorsk about northwest of Chelyabinsk and flows east then northeast to the small town of Dalmatovo to flow into the mid-part of the Iset, a tributary of the Tobol. Its basin is close to and north of the Miass, longer than these
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Techa River is referenced by 18 other articles, and connects out to Russia, Russian and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map in waterbody, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under 1940s disasters in the Soviet Union, 1949 disasters in the Soviet Union and 1950s disasters in the Soviet Union.
Its subject is documented across 19 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- River.name
- Techa
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.mouth
- Iset
- River.progression
- Iset→
- River.length_km
- 243
- River.basin_size_km2
- 7600
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Chelyabinsk Oblast
- Image
- Река Теча (приток Исети) f005.jpg
- Length
- 243
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- Commons category
- Techa River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Iset
- watershed area
- 7600
- discharge
- 6.7
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Water pollution
- See also
- References
thumb|Map of the Tobol basin. The Techa river (Теча) may be found to the left center, next to the regional ЧЕЛЯБИНСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ (Chelyabinsk Oblast) label. The Techa (, ) is an eastward river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination. It is long, and its basin covers . It begins by the once-secret nuclear processing town of Ozyorsk about northwest of Chelyabinsk and flows east then northeast to the small town of Dalmatovo to flow into the mid-part of the Iset, a tributary of the Tobol. Its basin is close to and north of the Miass, longer than these rivers apart from the Tobol.
==Water pollution== From 1949 to 1956 the Mayak complex dumped an estimated of radioactive waste water into the Techa River, a cumulative dispersal of of radioactivity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Techa River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations