Sura River
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Sura River in Penza
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File:Sura basin-2.png
Map of the Sura River watershed
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Mouth | Cheboksary Reservoir |
Progression | Cheboksary Reservoir—Volga River—Caspian Sea |
Basin countries | Russia |
Length | 841 km (523 mi) |
Source elevation | 301 m (988 ft) |
Mouth elevation | 60 m (200 ft) |
Avg. discharge | 260 m3/s (9,200 cu ft/s) at mouth |
Basin area | 67,500 km2 (26,100 sq mi) |
Sura (Russian: Сура́, Chuvash: Сăр) is a river in Russia, a right tributary of the Volga River. It flows through Penza Oblast, Mordovia, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Chuvashia and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Its length is 841 km, it is navigable for 394 km from the mouth.
The city of Penza, and smaller towns Alatyr, Shumerlya, Yadrin lie along the Sura. At the confluence with the Volga there is a settlement of Vasilsursk.
The principal confluents of the Sura are Penza River, Pyana River and Alatyr River.
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