Pyshma River

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Coordinates: 57°07′01″N 66°20′29″E / 57.11694°N 66.34139°E / 57.11694; 66.34139

The Pyshma (Russian: Пышма) is a river in Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts of Russia. It is a tributary of the Tura, and is 603-kilometer (375 mi) long, with a drainage basin of 19,700 square kilometers (7,600 sq mi).

The Pyshma has its sources at 290 meters AMSL on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains, near the town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, just north of Yekaterinburg. The river flows onto the western part of the West Siberian Plain, and its confluence with the Tura River is at 46 m AMSL, at the village of Sosonovo, some 40 kilometers east of Tyumen. In its lower course the river meanders heavily. Here it is around 50 meters (160 ft) wide and 3 meters (9.8 ft) deep.

The rivers average discharge is 34 m³/s (with a maximum of 1300 m³/s, and a minimum of 2 m³/s). Its main tributaries are, from the right: the Kunara and the Bolshaya Kalinovka, and from the left: the Reft.

The Pyshma freezes over in early November and stays frozen till the spring thaw starts in April.

The towns along the Pyshma are Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Beryozovsky, Zarechny, Sukhoy Log, and Kamyshlov

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