The Tuba () is a river in

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krai) of Russia located in Siberia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Krasnoyarsk, the second-largest city in Siberia after ...

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. It is formed by the confluence of the rivers

Kazyr The Kazyr () is a river in the Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia. At its confluence with the Amyl (river), Amyl, the Tuba (river), Tuba (a right tributary of the Yenisey) is formed. Its name translates from the Tuvan language as "savage ...

(Казыр) and

Amyl Amyl may refer to: * Amylum or starch, a carbohydrate ** Amylopectin, a polymer of glucose found in plants; one of two components of starch ** Amylose, a helical polymer made of α-D-glucose units; one of two components of starch * Pentyl, a fiv ...

(Амы́л) and is a right tributary of the

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. The length of the river proper is or from the headwaters of the Kazyr in the Eastern

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in the

Minusinsk Hollow Minusinsk Basin or Khakass-Minusinsk Basin (, ''Minusinskaya (Chakassko-Minusinskaya) kotlovina'') is in Khakassia and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It ...

. The area of its basin, which includes more than a thousand lakes, is . The Tuba flows into the Krasnoyarsk Reservoir so that the mouth of the Tuba is actually part of the reservoir. The river is navigable at high water to from its mouth, but it freezes sometime around late October to early December, and thaws from April to early May. There are two (sometimes considered three) road bridges and a railway bridge constructed over the Tuba.

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* Rivers of Krasnoyarsk Krai {{Siberia-river-stub

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