The Nerl () is a
river
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in
Pereslavsky District of
Yaroslavl
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and
Kalyazinsky District
Kalyazinsky District () is an administrative and municipalLaw #4-ZO district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Tver Oblast, thirty-six in Tver Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Uglichsky Di ...
of
Tver Oblast
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Tver Oblast is a region of lakes, such as Seliger and Brosno. Much o ...
in
Russia
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, a right
tributary
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of the
Volga
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(at the
Uglich Reservoir
Uglich Reservoir or Uglichskoye Reservoir () is an artificial lake in the upper part of the Volga River formed by the Uglich Hydroelectric Station dam.
It was built in 1939 in the town of Uglich. It is located in Tver and Yaroslavl Oblasts in c ...
). The length of the river is . The area of its
drainage basin
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is . Its main tributary is the 91 km (57 mi) long
Kubr (left), which rises in the Lyakhovo marshes.
The Nerl originates in the
Lake Pleshcheyevo under the name of Veksa-Pleshcheyevskaya, flows northwest and is known as the Nerl downstream of
Lake Somino. Downstream of the village of
Andrianovo a stretch of the Nerl makes the border between Yaroslavl and Tver Oblasts. Further downstream, the Nerl enters Tver Oblast. Its mouth is in the village of
Sknyatino.
The drainage basin of the Nerl includes the western and the central parts of Pereslavsky District, the southern part of Kalyazinsky District, as well as relatively minor areas in the southern part of
Uglichsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast, and northern parts of
Alexandrovsky District of
Vladimir Oblast
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The UNESCO World Heritage L ...
and
Taldomsky and
Sergiyevo-Posadsky Districts of
Moscow Oblast
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. The town of
Pereslavl-Zalessky
Pereslavl-Zalessky (, ), formerly known as Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, or simply Pereyaslavl, is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located on the main Moscow–Yaroslavl road and on the southeastern shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo at the mouth of the ...
and the urban-type settlement of
Kubrinsk lie in the drainage basin of the Nerl.
References
{{Rivers of Russia
Rivers of Tver Oblast
Rivers of Yaroslavl Oblast