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Also known as Tura River

river in Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts, Russia

Key facts

Native name
Тура ( Russian )
Location
Middle Urals
Coordinates
58°23′10″N 59°21′55″E / 58.38611°N 59.36528°E / 58.38611; 59.36528
Elevation
370 m
Length
1,030 km (640 mi)
Basin size
80,400 km (31,000 sq mi)
Average
202.7 m /s (7,160 cu ft/s) (184 km from the mouth)
Progression
Tobol → Irtysh → Ob → Kara Sea

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

The Tura (near the source also — Dolgaya) is a river in the Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts of Russia, a left tributary of the Tobol (basin of the Irtysh). It flows across the Tura Plain.

Etymology

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

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