Kola (river)

Kola River
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Lake Kolozero
• elevation	140 m (460 ft)
Mouth
• location	Kola Bay
Length	83 km (52 mi)
Basin size	3,850 km2 (1,490 sq mi)
Discharge
• average	40 m3/s (1,400 cu ft/s)

Kola (Russian: Кола) is a river on the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is 83 km long, with a drainage basin of 3,850 km². The river flows out of Lake Kolozero north into the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea, some 10 km south of Murmansk. The neighbouring Tuloma River has its mouth just one kilometer to the west. The average discharge is 40 m³/s, but there are large seasonal variations. Its largest tributaries is Kitza and Orlovka from the right, and Tukhta and Medvezhya from the left. The only town on the river is also called Kola.

Kola-Tuloma river basins. Kola basin in green