Sozh
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| Sozh | |
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 Sozh in Gomel, Belarus |
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| Origin | Russia |
| Mouth | Dnieper |
| Basin countries | Belarus, Russia, Ukraine |
| Length | 648 km (403 mi) |
| Source elevation | |
| Avg. discharge | In Gomel: 207 m³/s (7,310 ft³/s) |
| Basin area | 42,100 km² (16,255 mi²) |
Sozh (Belarusian: Сож, IPA: [sɔʐ]; Russian: Сож) is a river in Belarus and Russia, a left tributary of the Dnieper river. It is 648 km in length. Sozh flows through Gomel, second largest city in Belarus. The river is crossed by the Sozh Floating Bridge at Korma and an elegant steel arch at Gomel, which is featured on a national stamp.[1]
The name was formerly Sozh' (Russian: Сожь), from Old East Slavic Съжь; suggested Baltic and Finnic etymologies are unsatisfactory, and V.A. Zhuchkevich has proposed that it is derived from Old Russian/Old Belarusian sozhzh' (сожжь) 'burned parts of a forest prepared for plowing,' which has parallels in other place names.[1]
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- ^ E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskiya nazvaniya mira (Moskva, 1998), p. 390.
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 Van crossing Sozh River on the new pontoon-bridge near Korma, Belarus |
 Bluff of the Sozh River (Сож) in eastern Belarus |
 The Sozh River in eastern Belarus |
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