The Uy (, ) is a
river
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in
Chelyabinsk Oblast
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in
Russia
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with its upper reaches in
Bashkortostan
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. It partially flows along the
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of Chelyabinsk and
Kurgan Oblast
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s with
Kazakhstan
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. The Uy is a left tributary of the
Tobol
The Tobol (, ) is a river in Western Siberia (in Kazakhstan and Russia) and the main (left) tributary of the Irtysh. Its length is , and the area of its drainage basin is .
History
The Tobol River was one of the four important rivers of the S ...
.
[Уй (река в Челябинской обл.)]
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The length of the river is 462 km. The area of its basin is 34,400 km
2.
It freezes up in November and stays icebound in April. The town of
Troitsk Troitsk (, ''Tróick'') is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia.
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and three
reservoir
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s (the largest being
Troitsk Reservoir) are situated on the Uy.
[
It rises in the southern ]Ural Mountains
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and Magnitogorsk
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and flows east with many meanders past Troitsk Troitsk (, ''Tróick'') is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia.
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to meet the Tobol
The Tobol (, ) is a river in Western Siberia (in Kazakhstan and Russia) and the main (left) tributary of the Irtysh. Its length is , and the area of its drainage basin is .
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The Tobol River was one of the four important rivers of the S ...
near Zverinogolovskoye (formerly the fort of Ust-Uysk). The gold-mining town of Plast
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First Era: 1911–1920
Plast was founded in Lviv (Lwów, Lemberg), Austro-Hungarian Ga ...
is on its headwaters. At the time of the Bashkir War of 1735-40 it was the eastern end of the Orenburg Line of forts and is now approximately part of the border between Russia and Kazakhstan. The Uy is the southernmost river on the east side of the Urals whose waters ultimately reach the Arctic Ocean. South of the Uy waters run to the river Ural which flows south into the Caspian Sea.
The name of the river comes from the Bashkir language
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, in which it means "valley, lowland".
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Rivers of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Rivers of Bashkortostan
Rivers of Kurgan Oblast
Rivers of Kazakhstan
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International rivers of Asia
Kazakhstan–Russia border
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