The Sinyaya (, , ) is a river in

Verkhnyadzvinsk Raion Vyerkhnyadzvinsk district (; ) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Vyerkhnyadzvinsk. In this district is the northernmost point of Belarus, situated to the north of Osveya Lake. Osveya Lake is the ...

of Vitebsk Region of

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

, in

Zilupe Zilupe ( Latgalian: ''Sīnuoja'', from ''sīna'' – 'border'; German: ''Rosenau'', ) is a town in Ludza Municipality, in the Latgale region of Latvia, by the Zilupe River, on the border with Russia. The population in 2020 was 1,343. Zilupe's ra ...

Ludza Ludza (; , , , , ''Ludza'') is a town in the Latgale region of eastern Latvia. Ludza is the oldest town in Latvia and this is commemorated by a key in its coat of arms. Ludza is the administrative centre of Ludza Municipality that is located near ...

, and Cibla municipalities of

Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...

, and in Sebezhsky, Krasnogorodsky, and

Ostrovsky District Ostrovsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia: *Ostrovsky District, Kostroma Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Kostroma Oblast *Ostrovsky District, Pskov Oblast, an administrative and ...

s of

Pskov Oblast Pskov Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the west of the country. Its administrative center is the Classification of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Pskov. As of the Russian Census ...

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, part of the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...

basin. It is 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

Velikaya River The Velikaya () is a river in Novosokolnichesky, Pustoshkinsky, Sebezhsky, Opochetsky, Pushkinogorsky, Ostrovsky, Palkinsky, and Pskovsky Districts of Pskov Oblast, as well as in the city of Pskov in Russia. It is the largest tributary o ...

. It is long, and the area of its basin . Its source of the Sinyaya is

Lake Osveya Lake Osveya or Lake Osveyskoye (, also spelled ; or ) is a large freshwater lake in the Vitebsk Region, in northern Belarus, near the borders with Latvia and Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europ ...

, Belarus, close to the place where the borders of Belarus, Latvia and Russia meet. After a short stretch it flows along the Belarus-Latvia border, then turns north and makes the Latvia-Russia border. It further departs from the border into the Latvian side, and flows through the town of

. North of Zilupe, it returns to the border. Even further north, the river turns northeast and enters Russia. It flows through the urban-type settlement of

Krasnogorodsk Krasnogorodsk (; ) is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Krasnogorodsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the Sinyaya River south of Pskov. Municipally, it is incorporated as Krasnogorodsk Urban Se ...

and turns east in the selo of Venyavino. The mouth of the Sinyaya is in the village of Ustye.

References

{{Authority control Rivers of Pskov Oblast Rivers of Vitebsk region Rivers of Latvia Rivers of Belarus