The Kudma (russian: Кудьма, ''Kud'ma'') is a river in

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (russian: link=no, Нижегородская область, ''Nizhegorodskaya oblast''), is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localiti ...

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, a right tributary of the

Volga The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the List of rivers of Europe#Rivers of Europe by length, longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Cas ...

. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .«Река КУДЬМА»
Russian State Water Registry The Kudma rises in the south of Bogorodsk District, and flows first northward, then eastward, through Bogorodsk and

Kstovo Kstovo (russian: Ксто́во) is a town and the administrative center of Kstovsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, southeast of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblas ...

Districts, finally falling into the Volga near

Leninskaya Sloboda Leninskaya Sloboda (russian: Ленинская Слобода) is a rural locality (a village) in Krasnoplamenskoye Rural Settlement, Alexandrovsky District, Vladimir Oblast Vladimir Oblast (russian: Влади́мирская о́бласть, ...

and Kadnitsy. In Kstovo District, the Kudma forms the southern border of the

Zelyony Gorod Zelyony Gorod (russian: Зелёный Го́род, lit. ''green city'') is an urban locality (a resort settlement under the administrative jurisdiction of the city of oblast significance of Nizhny Novgorod) in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia ...

natural area, and then flows in the valley between the city of

(to the north) and Kstovo's industrial area to the south. Upstream of Kstovo, the river's waters are quite clean and transparent, and its shores attract many swimmers and sunbathers in the summertime.

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