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.

v t e Kama River

Left tributary of the Volga River

Tributaries	Kosa Vishera Mulyanka Chusovaya Sylva Belaya Izh Ik Toyma Sheshma Zay Vyatka Myosha

Reservoirs	Kama Votkinsk Nizhnekamsk Kuybyshev

Hydroelectric stations	Kama Votkinsk Nizhnekamsk

References

↑ (Tatar) "Туйма". Tatar Encyclopaedia. Kazan: The Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002.

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Coordinates: 56°19′12″N 52°24′24″E / 56.32000°N 52.40667°E / 56.32000; 52.40667

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