The Irbit () is a river in
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblastʹ, p=svʲɪrdˈlofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the c ...
,
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...
in the
Tura River
The Tura (; ), also known as Dolgaya (Long River, ), is a historically important Siberian river which flows eastward from the central Ural Mountains into the Tobol, a part of the Ob basin. The main town on it is Tyumen.
Description
From about ...
basin. It is a
tributary
A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...
of the
Nitsa
The Nitsa () is a river in the Sverdlovsk Oblast in Russia. It is a tributary of the Tura. The river commences at the confluence of the Neyva and the Rezh, east of the city Alapayevsk and flows firstly in an easterly and then in southeasterly ...
. It has its sources near the town of
Sukhoy Log, which is on the
Pyshma River
The Pyshma (, Siberian Tatar: Пышны, ''Pyshny''Ниязова Г. М. Типы и структура ойконимов сибирских татар (На материале Тюменской области), 2004, Стр. 8.) is a river ...
and flows in a northeasterly direction between the Pyshma and Nitsa towards its mouth in the Nitsa at the town of
Irbit
Irbit (Stress is given per the ''Dictionary of modern geographical names'', entry o().) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located from Yekaterinburg by train or by car, on the right bank of the Nitsa. Population:
It was previously kno ...
.
Rivers of Sverdlovsk Oblast
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