Sura River

Sura River
Sura River in Penza
File:Sura basin-2.png Map of the Sura River watershed
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.

File:Sura near Alatyr.jpg

The Sura River near Alatyr.

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