The Bolshoy Kinel () is a river in

Orenburg Orenburg (, ), formerly known as Chkalov (1938–1957), is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies in Eastern Europe, along the banks of the Ural River, being approximately southeast of Moscow. Orenburg is close to the ...

and

Samara Oblast Samara Oblast (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Samara. From 1935 to 1991, it was known as Kuybyshev Oblast. As of the Rus ...

s of

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 ...

. It is a right

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 river

Samara Samara, formerly known as Kuybyshev (1935–1991), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara (Volga), Samara rivers, with a population of over 1.14 ...

, and is long, with a

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

of .«Река Б.КИНЕЛЬ»
Russian State Water Registry It has its sources on the northern slopes of the

Obshchy Syrt Obshchy Syrt (, ) is a highland ridge, or plateau ('' syrt''), in the European part of Russia. It starts north of Orenburg as a branch of the Ural Mountains and runs in a southwesterly direction to the east bank of the Volga River. River Shagan, ...

hills, and flows into the Samara east of the city of

. Along the river are located the towns of

Buguruslan Buguruslan () is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. Population: History It was founded at the end of 1748 as a settlement (Buguruslanskaya settlement) by Russian peasants and artisans who migrated to the Volga region, on the ancestral lands o ...

Pokhvistnevo Pokhvistnevo () is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities *Pokhvistnevo, Samara Oblast, a town in Samara Oblast; administratively incorporated as a city of federal subject sign ...

, Otradny and, at the confluence with the

Kinel Kinel () is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Kinel River near its confluence with the Samara River, east of Samara. Population: History It was founded in 1837. In 1877, during the construction of the Samara–Orenburg r ...

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Rivers of Orenburg Oblast Rivers of Samara Oblast {{South-Russia-river-stub