What is the Sunzha River? How is she good? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. In fact, two rivers carry this name. One of them is located in the North Caucasus, and is the right tributary of the Terek, and the other is the right tributary of the Volga, located in the Vichug district of the Ivanovo region. Consider these two rivers below.
Terek tributary
Have you ever been to Ingushetia? The Sunzha River, which is a tributary of the Terek, flows not only through the territory of this republic. She paved her way through the lands of Chechnya and North Ossetia. Its basin area is 12, 000 km², the length of the river is 278 km. The source is located on the northern slope of the Caucasus Great Ridge at an altitude of 1200 m.
This Sunzha River is used for irrigation. Its average turbidity is 3800 g / m³: it carries out about 12.2 million tons of sediment per year.
Flow
The source of the Caucasian river Sunzha is located in glaciers in the Ushkort massif. From here, the full-flowing beauty, having cut through the Uchkhut mountain ranges, follows the gorge between the mountains of Sunji-court and Sugulta. Then it flows north through the lands of Ingushetia to a distance of 37 km.
At the village of Ekazhevo, the Sunzha River flows through several channels, flows at a distance of 12 km to Karabulak. It makes a bend to the east, carries its waters to Zakan-Yurt. From there, it flows into the Terek after 85 km.
Mode
There is always a lot of water in the Caucasian Sunzha. After long-term and heavy rains, its level can rise by 4 m. In April-May, when there is a lot of rainfall and winter snow melts, there is a flood in the river.
In the XIX-XX centuries, Sunzha froze almost everything, with the exception of fast zones. Previously, even Russian armies could cross it through the ice with heavy loads and artillery. But the climate in the Caucasus has become milder in recent decades, and the river has stopped freezing.
Economic activity
It is known that in the 19th century, Chechens cut down forests on the banks of the Caucasian beauty and rafted it for sale in Kizlyar in the spring with floods. Today, Sunzha waters are used for fishing and irrigation of fields. To this end, they have been used before. Fishermen say that catfish, chub and barbel are well caught here.
They take with them spinning rods, bait (wobbler) and in sunny weather they fish from 8 am to late evening quite successfully. Many of them say that from the very first cast you can catch a barbel weighing 300 g or a half-kilogram chub.
Tributaries
Caucasian Sunzha has a single left tributary - the Neftyanka. But she has many right-wingers - this is Goit, and Assa, and Gums, and Martan, and Valerik, and Gekhi. The right tributaries of the Sunji are also Bass and Argun.
Sunzha becomes a large river only after Assa flows into it. It is magnificent for its convolutions, especially on the way from the Samashkinskaya village, where these convolutions almost form complete rings. The river flows along these loops very slowly, does not spill over the tributaries. Due to the clay shores, its water is always muddy, it has a yellow color. The cities of Grozny, Karabulak, Nazran are located on this river.
Volga inflow
There is another river Sunzha - in the Ivanovo region. Its catchment area is 507 km² and its length is 45 km. The source of the Ivanovo beauty is located northwest of the village of Gaydarovo Bolshoi, flows into the Gorkovskoye reservoir, located on the Volga, 2464 km from its mouth. On the river are the settlements of Kamenka and Novopisovo.
Water Registry Information
In the water state register of Russia it is indicated that the Ivanovo beauty belongs to the Verkhnevolzhsky basin district, its water management zone is the Volga from the city of Kostroma to the Gorkovsky waterworks (Gorkovsky reservoir), without the Unzha River. Its river sub-basin is the Volga below the Rybinsky reservoir before the confluence of the Oka. The river basin of the Sunzhi - Volga (Upper) to the Kuibyshevsky reservoir (without the Oka basin).
In the state water registry, the object code is: 08010300412110000013476.
The Ivanovo river Sunzha has such tributaries (km from the mouth):
- Pezuha River (27 km, left tributary);
- Vichuzhanka river (24 km, lion. etc.);
- Shohna River (4 km, lion. pr.);
- Zharovka River (13 km, right ave.).
Two bridges were built across this river: one in Kamenka, the other in Kuznetsovo.
