The Maly Cheremshan (literally, ''The Little Cheremshan'', russian: Малый Черемшан; tt-Cyrl, Кече Чирмешән, ''Keçe Çirmeşän'') is a river in Tatarstan and Ulyanovsk Oblast,

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, a right-bank

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of the Bolshoy Cheremshan. It is long. The river's

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Russian State Water Registry It begins near Tatarsky Yeltan, Chistopolsky District, Tatarstan, and flows to the Bolshoy Cheremshan in Ulyanovsk Oblast. Maximal water discharge is (1979). Major tributaries are the Cheboksarka, Savrushka, Bagana, Adamka, Vyalyulkina, Baranka, Marasa, Ata, Shiya, Yukhmachka rivers. The maximal mineralization 500-700 mg/L. The average sediment deposition at the

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per year is . In its middle reaches the river crosses the biggest forest in Transkama Tatarstan. Since 1978 it is protected as a ''natural monument of Tatarstan''.

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Rivers of Tatarstan Rivers of Ulyanovsk Oblast {{Russia-river-stub