The Pyshma (,

Siberian Tatar Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states sin ...

: Пышны, ''Pyshny''Ниязова Г. М. Типы и структура ойконимов сибирских татар (На материале Тюменской области), 2004, Стр. 8.) is a river in Sverdlovsk and

Tyumen Oblast Tyumen Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is located in Western Siberia, and is administratively part of the Ural Federal District. The oblast has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous ...

s of

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

. It is a right

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 Tura. It is {{convert, 603, km, mi long, with a

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

of {{convert, 19700, km2.{{GVR, 196631, Река Пышма The Pyshma has its sources at {{convert, 290, m, ft above sea level on the eastern side of the

Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains ( ),; , ; , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural (river), Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.

, near the town of

Verkhnyaya Pyshma Verkhnyaya Pyshma () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located north of Yekaterinburg. Population: History It was founded in 1660 as the village (''village#Russia, selo'') of Pyshminskoye, whic ...

, just north of

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...

. The river flows onto the western part of the

West Siberian Plain The West Siberian Plain () is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei, Yenisei River in the east, and the Altai Mountains on the southeast. Much of the plain is poorly d ...

, and its confluence with the Tura River is at {{convert, 46, m, ft above sea level, at the village of ''Sosonovo'', some {{convert, 40, km, mi east of

Tyumen Tyumen ( ; rus, Тюмень, p=tʲʉˈmʲenʲ, a=Ru-Tyumen.ogg) is the administrative center and largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is situated just east of the Ural Mountains, along the Tura ( ...

. In its lower course the river

meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the Channel (geography), channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erosion, erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank (cut bank, cut bank or river cl ...

s heavily. Here it is around {{convert, 50, m, ft wide and {{convert, 3, m, ft, 0 deep. The river's average discharge is {{convert, 34, m3/s, cuft/s, with a maximum of {{convert, 1300, m3/s, cuft/s and a minimum of {{convert, 2, m3/s, cuft/s. Its main tributaries are, from the right: the Kunara and the Bolshaya Kalinovka, and from the left: the Reft. The Pyshma freezes over in early November and stays frozen until the spring thaw starts in April. The towns along the Pyshma are Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Beryozovsky, Zarechny, Sukhoy Log, and

Kamyshlov Kamyshlov or Qamışlı (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Pyshma River (Ob River, Ob's drainage basin, basin) at its confluence with the Kamyshlov (river), Kamy ...

Etymology

The name comes from tatar language and means "calm".{{cite book, author = Архипова Н. П. , chapter = , chapter-url = , format = , url = , title = Окрестности Свердловска , orig-year = , agency = , edition = , location= Свердловск , date = 1968 , publisher= Сред.-Урал. кн. изд-во , volume= , pages = 149, series = , isbn =

References

{{Reflist Rivers of Sverdlovsk Oblast Rivers of Tyumen Oblast