The Sorot (russian: Сороть) is a river in Novorzhevsky, Bezhanitsky, and

Pushkinogorsky District Pushkinogorsky District (russian: Пушкиного́рский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #833-oz and municipalLaw #420-oz district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Pskov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast an ...

s of Pskov Oblast in

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. It is a right

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of the

Velikaya The Velikaya () is a river in Novosokolnichesky, Pustoshkinsky, Sebezhsky, Opochetsky, Pushkinogorsky, Ostrovsky, Palkinsky, and Pskovsky Districts of Pskov Oblast, as well as in the city of Pskov in Russia. It is a major tributary of Lak ...

. It is long, and the area of its basin . The main tributary of the Sorot is the Lsta (left). The source of the Sorot is

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in the eastern part of Novorzhevsky District. The river flows to the east, reaches the boundary between Novorzhevsky and Bezhanitsky Districts and turns north such that a stretch of it forms the boundary. Further north, it turns west, accepts the Lsta from the left, crosses Novorzhevsky and Pushkinogorsky Districts, and joins the Velikaya downstream of the village of

Selikhnovo Selikhnovo (russian: Селихново) is the name of several rural localities (villages) in Pskov Oblast, Russia: * Selikhnovo, Pskovsky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Pskovsky District Pskovsky District (russian: Пско́вский р ...

. In the lower course, the Sorot flows through the Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve. The town of

Novorzhev Novorzhev (russian: Новорже́в) is a town and the administrative center of Novorzhevsky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the Sorot River southeast of Pskov, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History It w ...

is located on the banks of the Sorot. The Sorot flows through a number of lakes, the biggest of which are Lake Beloguli and Lake Posadnikovskoye. The drainage basin of the Sorot is large and includes Novorzhevsky District, the northeastern part of Pushkinogorsky District, the western part of Bezhanitsky District, as well as minor areas in Dedovichsky and

Porkhovsky District Porkhovsky District (russian: По́рховский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #833-oz and municipalLaw #420-oz district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Pskov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central and northeastern parts of t ...

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{{Reflist Rivers of Pskov Oblast