The Sudoma () is a left

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of the

Shelon The Shelon () is a river in the northwest part of European Russia, in Dedovichsky, Porkhovsky, and Dnovsky Districts of Pskov Oblast and Soletsky and Shimsky Districts of Novgorod Oblast. The Shelon is one of the principal tributaries of Lake ...

, with its course located in Sudoma uplands in Dedovichsky and

Bezhanitsky District Bezhanitsky District () is an administrativeLaw #833-oz and municipalLaw #420-oz district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Pskov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central and eastern parts of the oblast and borders with Dedovichsky District ...

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of Russia. The Sudoma is part of the

Lake Ilmen Lake Ilmen (, ) is a large lake in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. A historically important lake, it formed a vital part of the medieval trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks. The city of Veliky Novgorod, which is a major trade center of the ro ...

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. The river has a length of and drains a basin of . It rarely attains the width of , being no deeper than along its course. It notably flows through Sosonskaya Volost where a synonymous village also exists. One version of the name is linked to a

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of a family of three giants that lived in the area, the name derived from the mother of the three.http://www.pskovgrad.ru/2006/05/19/sudoma.html Судома History of Pskov and Pskov Oblast The source of the river is located on the uplands of the same name, so named for apparently serving as a place of a judging ritual, the word for

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in Russian being "sud" (), however the source is located in

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(), and the name is only extant from the Nikonov Chronicles (1539-1542), before which it was called Sudomir', meaning "peace trial" or "decision for peace". The most ancient settlers in the area of the river were thought to be the

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tribe. In 1021

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suffered a defeat during the battle on the Sudoma River. The river and the uplands are both mentioned by

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...

. During the

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the area was a scene of battles between the German forces and the

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() (commander Colonel A.P. German ) where they conducted the

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.see sources, Wikimapia

References

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Sources

* Daniël Mourad, ''Patterns of nutrient transfer in lowland catchments'' (thesis), Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University * Судома in wikimapia.or

Rivers of Pskov Oblast