The Kudma (, ''Kud'ma'') is a river in

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Nizhny Novgorod 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 Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,119,115 as of the 2021 Ru ...

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, a right tributary of the

Volga The Volga (, ) is the longest river in Europe and the longest endorheic basin river in the world. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchment ...

. It is long, and has a

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of .«Река КУДЬМА»
Russian State Water Registry The Kudma rises in the south of Bogorodsk District, and flows first northward, then eastward, through Bogorodsk and

Kstovo Kstovo () is a town and the administrative center of Kstovsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, earlier Sowjetunion / since 1991 Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, southeast of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center ...

Districts, finally falling into the Volga near Leninskaya Sloboda and Kadnitsy. In Kstovo District, the Kudma forms the southern border of the Zelyony Gorod natural area, and then flows in the valley between the city of

(to the north) and Kstovo's industrial area to the south. Upstream of Kstovo, the river's waters are quite clean and transparent, and its shores attract many swimmers and sunbathers in the summertime.

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Rivers of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast {{South-Russia-river-stub