The Klyazma (, ''Klyaz'ma''), a

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in the

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, Ivanovo and

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s in

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, forms a left

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of the Oka.Клязьма

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The river has a length of . The area of its

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is . The Klyazma usually freezes up in November and stays under the ice until mid-April, although in faster-moving stretches ice-free water occurs until the air temperature drops below . The largest tributaries of the Klyazma include (from source to mouth):«Река ОЗЕРО МАЛЫЕ ПОДБОРЦЫ»
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(left) * Vorya (left) *

Sherna The Sherna (russian: Ше́рна) is a river in Vladimir and Moscow Oblasts in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Klyazma. It has a length of 89 km, and a drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surfac ...

(left) * Kirzhach (left) * Peksha (left) *

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(right) * Koloksha (left) * Nerl (left) * Sudogda (right) * Nerekhta (right) * Uvod (left) * Teza (left) * Lukh (left) * Suvoroshch (right) The Klyazma is navigable within from its

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and in the area of the Klyazminskoye Reservoir. The cities of Gorokhovets, Mendeleyevo,

Pavlovsky Posad Pavlovsky Posad (russian: Па́вловский Поса́д) is a town and the administrative center of Pavlovo-Posadsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located from Moscow, at the confluence of the Klyazma and Vokhna Rivers. Population: ...

, Vladimir,

Kovrov Kovrov (russian: Ковро́в) is a city in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Klyazma River, a tributary of the Oka. Kovrov's population as of the 2021 Census was 132,417, down from 145,214 recorded in the 2010 Censu ...

, Shchyolkovo,

Losino-Petrovsky Losino-Petrovsky (russian: Лоси́но-Петро́вский) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Vorya and Klyazma Rivers northeast of Moscow. Population: History In 1708, a manufacture for producin ...

Noginsk Noginsk (russian: Ноги́нск) is a city and the administrative center of Noginsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of the Moscow Ring Road on the Klyazma River. Population: History Founded in 1389 as Rogozhi, the town was ...

, Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Sobinka and Vyazniki stand on the shores of the Klyazma River. The basin of the Klyazma formed the center of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality in the 12th to 14th centuries CE.

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