Bolshoy Cheremshan (russian: Большой Черемшан, literally ''Greater Cheremshan'', tt-Cyrl, Олы Чирмешән, ''Olı Çirmeşän'') is a river in
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left
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tributary of the
Volga
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between the
Kama
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and
Samara
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. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
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Russian State Water Registry It flows southwest to the Volga near
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Bolshaya Sulcha Bolshaya (Russian language for "big") may refer to:
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and
Maly Cheremshan
The Maly Cheremshan (literally, ''The Little Cheremshan'', russian: Малый Черемшан; tt-Cyrl, Кече Чирмешән, ''Keçe Çirmeşän'') is a river in Tatarstan and Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary o ...
. The maximal discharge is (1979), and the minimal mineralization is 600-800 ''mg/l''. The riverbed is meandering and the meadows are wide. From around 1650 the Trans-Kama Line of forts ran along or near the Cheremshan.
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Rivers of Tatarstan
Rivers of Samara Oblast
Rivers of Ulyanovsk Oblast
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