The Lozva (;
Northern Mansi: Лӯсум-я̄, ''Lūsum-jā'') is a river in
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblastʹ, p=svʲɪrdˈlofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the c ...
in
Russia
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. At its confluence with the
Sosva, the
Tavda is formed. The river is long, and its
basin covers .
The river freezes up in October or early November and stays icebound until late April or early May. Its main tributaries are the
Pynovka,
Bolshaya Yevva,
Ponil, and
Ivdel
Ivdel (; Mansi: Сапсаус, ''Sapsayas'') is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Ivdel River ( Ob's basin) near its confluence with the Lozva River, north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast. Populati ...
.
Лозьва
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In 1590 a fort was built at Lozvinsk on the river to guard the Cherdyn Route which ran over the Urals from the Vishera to the Lozva. That outpost was endangered by a Mansi chieftain from Pelym. Lozvinsk and the Cherdyn route were abandoned after 1597 when a better route, called the Babinov Road, was found through Verkhoturye
Verkhoturye () is a historical town and the administrative center of Verkhotursky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located in the middle Ural Mountains on the left bank of the Tura River north of Yekaterinburg. Population: 7,815 ( ...
. The Dyatlov Pass incident
The Dyatlov Pass incident () was an event in which nine Soviet people, Soviet ski hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains on 1 or 2 February 1959, under undetermined circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the Ural State Technica ...
took place near the Lozva in 1959.
References
Rivers of Sverdlovsk Oblast
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