Toyma River

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Toyma, Tuyma River
Origin Udmurtia
Mouth Kuybyshev Reservoir, Kama River, near Yelabuga, Tatarstan
Basin countries Tatarstan and Udmurtia, Russia
Length 124 km
Mouth elevation 53
Basin area 1,446 km²

The Toyma (Russian: Тойма; Tatar Cyrillic: Туйма, Latin: Tuyma) is a river in Udmurtia and Tatarstan, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary of the Kama River. Its length is 124 km (84 of them in Tatarstan) and its drainage basin is 1,446 km². It origins in Udmurtia and falls to the Kama near Yelabuga, Tatarstan.

Major tributaries are Vozzhayka, Yurashka, Karinka Rivers. The maximal mineralization 400-600 mg/l. The maximal water discharge is 533 m³/s (1979). Drainage is regulated. Average sediment in mouth per year is 146 mm. Since 1978 it is protected as natural monument of Tatarstan. [1] Mendeleyevsk and Yelabuga stay on the river.

[edit] References

  1. ^ (Tatar) "Туйма". Tatar Encyclopedia. Kazan: Tatarstan Republic Academy of Sciences Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002. 

Coordinates: 56°19′12″N 52°24′24″E / 56.32°N 52.40667°E / 56.32; 52.40667

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