The Kuchuk (russian: Кучук) is a river in
Altai Krai
Altai Krai (russian: Алта́йский край, r=Altaysky kray, p=ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region and Pavlodar ...
,
Russia
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. The river is long and has a catchment area of .
The basin of the river is located in the
Rodinsky and
Blagoveshchensky districts. There are a number of villages near its banks, such as
Nizhny Kuchuk,
Stepnoy Kuchuk,
Kayaushka,
Novotroitsk
Novotroitsk (russian: Новотро́ицк) is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of and along the Ural River, from Orenburg, on the border with Kazakhstan. In the east Novotroitsk almost borders Orsk: the distance b ...
,
Voznesenka
Voznesenka (Russian: ''Вознесенка'', ) is a small unincorporated community in the Kenai Peninsula Borough 23 miles northeast of Homer, Alaska, United States.
Brief overlook
Located on the Kenai Peninsula, about east of Homer, Voznesenka ...
and
Tsentralnoye. The ghost-town of
Verkh-Nezamay is also located by the river. Founded in 1910, it was abolished in 2003.
[List of populated places in the Siberian region. - Volume 1. ''Districts of South-Western Siberia''. - ]Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk (, also ; rus, Новосиби́рск, p=nəvəsʲɪˈbʲirsk, a=ru-Новосибирск.ogg) is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the Russian Census ...
: Siberian Regional Executive Committee. Statistical department, 1928. - 831 p.
Course
The Kuchuk river system is an
endorheic basin
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between the
Ob and the
Irtysh
The Irtysh ( otk, 𐰼𐱅𐰾:𐰇𐰏𐰕𐰏, Ertis ügüzüg, mn, Эрчис мөрөн, ''Erchis mörön'', "erchleh", "twirl"; russian: Иртыш; kk, Ертіс, Ertis, ; Chinese: 额尔齐斯河, pinyin: ''É'ěrqísī hé'', Xiao'erj ...
rivers. The sources are at the southwestern end of the
Ob Plateau
The Ob Plateau ( rus, Приобское плато, ''Priobskoye Plato''), is one of the great plateaus of Siberia. Administratively it falls within Altai Krai and Novosibirsk Oblast, Siberian Federal District, Russia. The plateau is named after ...
, in lake Zhir-Kain,
[ a small lake located to the south of ]Voznesenka
Voznesenka (Russian: ''Вознесенка'', ) is a small unincorporated community in the Kenai Peninsula Borough 23 miles northeast of Homer, Alaska, United States.
Brief overlook
Located on the Kenai Peninsula, about east of Homer, Voznesenka ...
. In its upper course the river flows northwards, then it bends westwards and flows meandering in a roughly western direction within the Kulunda Plain
The Kulunda Steppe or Kulunda Plain (russian: Кулундинская равнина, kk, Құлынды даласы, ''Qūlyndy dalasy'') is an alluvial plain in Russia and Kazakhstan. It is an important agricultural region in Western Siberi ...
. In its last stretch it heads in a roughly northwestern direction. Finally it meets the eastern shore of Lake Kuchuk
Lake Kuchuk or Kuchukskoye (russian: Кучукское озеро) is a bittern salt lake in the southern part of the West Siberian Plain, Blagoveshchensky District, Altai Krai, south-central Russia.
Its waters are briny, containing sodium sul ...
about northwest of Nizhny Kuchuk.
Tributaries
The longest tributary of the Kuchuk is an unnamed long river joining it from the left from its mouth. The river is largely fed by groundwater. It is frozen between November and April.Google Earth
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See also
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
External links
The syntaxonomy of the meadow vegetation of Kulunda and Kasmala pine forest strips (Altai Territory)
Rivers of Altai Krai
West Siberian Plain
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