The Kuchuk () 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
Rodinsky and
Blagoveshchensky districts. There are a number of villages near its banks, such as
Nizhny Kuchuk,
Stepnoy Kuchuk,
Kayaushka,
Novotroitsk
Novotroitsk () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of and along the Ural River, from Orenburg, on the Kazakhstan–Russia border, border with Kazakhstan. In the east Novotroi ...
,
Voznesenka and
Tsentralnoye. The ghost-town of
Verkh-Nezamay is also located by the river. Founded in 1910, it was abolished in 2003.
[List of populated places in the Siberian region. - Volume 1. ''Districts of South-Western Siberia''. - ]Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, making it the most populous city in Siber ...
: Siberian Regional Executive Committee. Statistical department, 1928. - 831 p.
Course
The Kuchuk river system is an
endorheic basin
An endorheic basin ( ; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent ...
between the
Ob and the
Irtysh
The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob (river), Ob and is also the longest tributary in the world.
The river's source lies in the Altai Mountains, Mongolian Altai in Dzungaria (the northern p ...
rivers. The sources are at the southwestern end of the
Ob Plateau
The Ob Plateau (, ''Priobskoye Plato''), is one of the great plateaus of Siberia. Administratively it falls within Altai Krai and Novosibirsk Oblast, Siberian Federal District, Russia. The plateau is named after the Ob River and is part of its ba ...
, in lake Zhir-Kain,
[ a small lake located to the south of Voznesenka. In its upper course the river flows northwards, then it bends westwards and flows meandering in a roughly western direction within the ]Kulunda Plain
The Kulunda Steppe or Kulunda Plain (, , ''Qūlyndy dalasy'') is an alluvial plain in Russia and Kazakhstan. It is an important agricultural region in Western Siberia.
Geography
The steppe is located between the Ob and Irtysh rivers in the sout ...
. In its last stretch it heads in a roughly northwestern direction. The end of the Kulunda Main Canal is located by the Kuchuk near Novotroitsk
Novotroitsk () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of and along the Ural River, from Orenburg, on the Kazakhstan–Russia border, border with Kazakhstan. In the east Novotroi ...
. Finally the river meets the eastern shore of Lake Kuchuk about northwest of Nizhny Kuchuk.
Tributaries
The longest tributary of the Kuchuk is an unnamed long river joining it from the left from its mouth. The river is largely fed by groundwater. It is frozen between November and April.Google Earth
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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
*
The syntaxonomy of the meadow vegetation of Kulunda and Kasmala pine forest strips (Altai Territory)
Rivers of Altai Krai
West Siberian Plain
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