The Kasmala () is a river in
Altai Krai
Altai Krai (, ) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders, clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan ( East Kazakhstan Region, Abai Region and Pavlodar Region), Novosibirsk and Kemerovo, and the Altai Republic. The krai's administrative ce ...
,
Russia
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. The river is long and has a catchment area of .
The basin of the river is located in the
Rebrikhinsky and
Pavlovsky districts.
Kasmala rural locality is named after the river.
Course
The Kasmala is a left
tributary
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of the
Ob river
The Ob (; ) is a major river in Russia. It is in western Siberia, and with its tributary the Irtysh forms the world's seventh-longest river system, at . The Ob forms at the confluence of the Biya and Katun which have their origins in the Alta ...
. It has its sources in lake Seleznevo-Borovskoye, located northeast of lake
Bolshoye Ostrovnoye in a swampy area of the
Ob Plateau. The river flows in a roughly northeastern direction within one of the wide ravines of glacial origin that cut diagonally across the plateau. Finally it meets the left bank of the Ob at
Kasmala, from the Ob's mouth.
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Tributaries
The longest tributary of the Kasmala is the long Borovlyanka (Боровлянка) on the left. The river is frozen between November and April.
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See also
*List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European and an Asian part. The dividing line is generally considered to be the Ural Mountains. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea. The Asian part is drained i ...
References
External links
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Rivers of Altai Krai
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