The Chumysh () is a

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, a right

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. It enters the Ob downriver from

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. The Chumysh begins at the confluence of the Kara-Chumysh and the Tom-Chumysh rivers in

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. The Chumysh is long, and it drains a basin of . About 68 percent of its right-side basin is known as the

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() and the Pre-Salair plains.

Main tributaries

Left

* Kara-Chumysh (), length * Sary-Chumysh (), length * Kashkaragaikha (), length *

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(), length * Angurep (), length

Right

* Tom-Chumysh (), length * Uksunay (), length * Alambay (), length * Sungay (), length * Talmenka (), length * Kamenka (), length

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Rivers of Kemerovo Oblast Rivers of Altai Krai {{Siberia-river-stub