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

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in the

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and Vladimir

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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 long river's

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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»
Russian State Water Registry * Ucha (left) * Vorya (left) * Sherna (left) *

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(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, Vladimir, Kovrov,

Shchyolkovo Shchyolkovo ( rus, Щёлково, p=ˈɕːɵlkəvə) is a city and the administrative center of Shchyolkovsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River ( Oka's tributary), northeast of Moscow. Population: 112,865 ( 20 ...

, Losino-Petrovsky,

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, 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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