Vyatka (river)

River in Russia

58°27′07″N 52°10′02″E / 58.4520°N 52.1671°E / 58.4520; 52.1671 MouthKama

• coordinates

55°35′35″N 51°29′49″E / 55.593°N 51.497°E / 55.593; 51.497Length1,314 km (816 mi)Basin size129,000 km² (50,000 sq mi)Discharge • average890 cubic metres per second (31,000 cu ft/s) Basin featuresProgressionKama→ Volga→ Caspian Sea

The Vyatka (/ˈvjɑːtkə, viˈɑː-/; Russian: Вя́тка, IPA: [ˈvʲatkə]; Tatar: Нократ, romanized: Nokrat; Mari: Виче, romanized: Viče; Udmurt: Ватка, romanized: Vatka) is a river in Kirov Oblast and Tatarstan in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Kama.^[1] It is 1,314 kilometres (816 mi) long, and its drainage basin covers 129,000 square kilometres (50,000 sq mi).^[2]

The Vyatka begins in the northern parts of Udmurtia. It freezes up in the early November and stays under the ice until the second half of April. The Vyatka teems with fish: bream, roach, tench, sheat fish, pike, European perch, zander, etc.

The Vyatka is navigable from its mouth to the city of Kirov, 700 kilometres (430 mi) upriver. Kirov was formerly known as Vyatka after the river before it was renamed by the Soviet government in 1934. The main ports are Kirov, Kotelnich, Sovetsk, and Vyatskiye Polyany.^[3]

Tributaries

The largest tributaries of the Vyatka are, from source to mouth:^[2]

Belaya (right)
Kobra (right)
Letka (right)
Belaya Kholunitsa (left)
Cheptsa (left)
Velikaya (right)
Bystritsa (left)
Moloma (right)
Pizhma (right)
Voya (left)
Urzhumka (right)
Kilmez (left)
Shoshma (right)

References

^ Вятка (река в Кировской обл.), Great Soviet Encyclopedia
^ ^a ^b «Река Вятка», Russian State Water Registry
^ Энциклопедия Города России. Moscow: Большая Российская Энциклопедия. 2003. pp. 193–195. ISBN 5-7107-7399-9.