The Severnaya Sosva (russian: Северная Сосьва, "''Northern Sosva''”;
Mansi
Mansi may refer to:
People
* Mansi people, an indigenous people living in Tyumen Oblast, Russia
** Mansi language
* Giovanni Domenico Mansi
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: Та̄гт-я̄, ''Tāgt-jā'') is a river in
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug,
Russia
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, which drains the northern
Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains ( ; rus, Ура́льские го́ры, r=Uralskiye gory, p=ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ; ba, Урал тауҙары) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western ...
into the lower
Ob. It discharges into the
Malaya Ob
Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:
Political entities
* British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...
, a branch of the Ob.
[Северная Сосьва]
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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Geography
The river and its tributaries are basically T-shaped. The Khulga and
Lyapin flow south for about parallel to the Urals while the main Northern Sosva flows about northward. The united rivers then flow east southeast about almost to the Ob near
Igrim and then flow north about before joining the Ob at
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Modern localities Altai Krai
As of 2012, two rural localities in A ...
. Its headwaters are just east of the headwaters of the
Pechora
Pechora (russian: Печо́ра; kv, Печӧра, ''Pećöra'') is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia, located on the Pechora River, west of and near the northern Ural Mountains. The area of the town is . Population:
History
Pechora was ...
on the other side of the Urals and somewhat north of the headwaters of the southeast-flowing
Pelym.
The Severnaya Sosva is long, and the area of its basin is .
The average
discharge of the river is .
[ It is frozen between November and April and floods (mostly ]snowmelt
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) from May to September. Like many rivers in the West Siberian Plain
The West Siberian Plain (russian: За́падно-Сиби́рская равни́на ''Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina'') is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River ...
, it has an extensive flood plain with marshes and meanders. In spring the area near the Ob often floods. The channel width sometimes approaches and the flood plain . The river is navigable by ships in the lower region.
There are two Malaya Sosva rivers. The larger flows north to join the Northern Sosva near Igrim. The other joins the Bolshaya Sosva to form the Northern Sosva.
Trade route
There was some ill-documented Russian trade in the area before the Russian conquest of Siberia
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. After about 1593 the Northern Sosva was one of the main routes into Siberia (for the others, see Verkhoturye
Verkhoturye (russian: Верхоту́рье) is a historical town and the administrative center of Verkhotursky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located in the middle Ural Mountains on the left bank of the Tura River north of Yekaterinb ...
). The route ran from the Pechora River, up the Shchugor River, over either of two passes and down the Sosva to the Ob and the fur-rich Mangazeya
Mangazeya (russian: Мангазе́я) was a Northwest Siberian trans- Ural trade colony and later city in the 17th century. Founded in 1600 by Cossacks from Tobolsk, it was situated on the Taz River, between the lower courses of the Ob and Ye ...
region. By the late 17th century the fur trade declined and most trade shifted south to Verkhoturye and some north to the Usa
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.
See also
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
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Rivers of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug