Sura River

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Map of the Volga watershed with the Sura highlighted
Map of the Volga watershed with the Sura highlighted

Sura (Russian: Сура́) is a river in Russia, right tributary of Volga. It flows through Penza Oblast, Mordovia, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Chuvashia and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

Length 841 km, navigable for 394 km from the mouth.

The cities Penza, Alatyr, Shumerlya and Vasilsursk lie along the river Sura. The confluence with the Volga is in Vasilsursk.

Volga River
Map of the drainage basin of the Volga.
Tributaries: TvertsaShoshaDubnaMedveditsaNerlKashinkaMologaSheksnaKotoroslKostromaUnzhaUzolaOkaKerzhenetsSuraVetlugaSviyagaKazankaKamaSamaraAkhtuba (distributary)
Reservoirs: Volga Lake • IvankovoUglichRybinskGorky • Cheboksary • Kuybyshev • Saratov • Volgograd
Hydroelectric stations: Uglich • Rybinsk • Nizhny Novgorod • Cheboksary • Zhigulyov • SaratovVolga