The Pasha () is a
river
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in
Tikhvinsky and
Volkhovsky District
Volkhovsky District () is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #56-oz district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Leningrad Oblast, seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central eastern part of the ...
s in the northeastern part of
Leningrad Oblast
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of
Russia
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, a left
tributary
A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...
of the
Svir
The Svir (; ; Karelian language, Karelian and Finnish language, Finnish: ) is a river in Podporozhsky District, Podporozhsky, Lodeynopolsky District, Lodeynopolsky, and Volkhovsky District, Volkhovsky districts in the north-east of Leningrad O ...
(
Lake Ladoga
Lake Ladoga is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg.
It is the largest lake located entirely in Europe, the second largest lake in Russia after Lake ...
basin). The Pasha is the largest of Svir's tributaries. It is long, and the area of its basin .
Its largest tributary is the
Kapsha (right).
The source of the Pasha is in
Lake Pashozero in Tikhvinsky District in the northeast of Leningrad Oblast. The river flows southwest, accepts the Kapsha from the right, and close to the village of
Novoye Selo turns north. The Pasha crosses into Volkhovsky District and downstream of the village of
Vonga turns northwest. It joins the Svir just away from Svir's mouth, in the settlement of
Sviritsa.
The
drainage basin
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of the Pasha includes large areas in the northeast of Leningrad Oblast. These lie in the center and the east of Tikhvinsky District, in the south of
Lodeynopolsky District
Lodeynopolsky District () is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #63-oz district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders with Olonetsky District of the Re ...
, in the northeast of
Boksitogorsky District
Boksitogorsky District () is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #78-oz district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Tikhvinsky District in the no ...
, as well as in the northwest of Volkhovsky District. A number of big lakes lie in the Pasha basin, including Lake Pashozero,
Lake Kapshozero,
Lake Lerinskoye, and
Lake Korvalskoye
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a depression (geology), basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land an ...
.
The lowest of the river course, downstream of the settlement of Rybezhno, are listed as navigable in the State Water Register of Russia.
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 ...
*
Vepsian Upland
References
{{Rivers of Russia
Rivers of Leningrad Oblast