The Plotnikova (russian: Плотникова)Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ
Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 301 is a river in the western

Kamchatka Peninsula The Kamchatka Peninsula (russian: полуостров Камчатка, Poluostrov Kamchatka, ) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about . The Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk make up the peninsula's eastern and we ...

, Russia, a tributary of the Bolshaya. It is used for spawning by various species of Pacific salmon.

Course

The Plotnikova flows through the Yelizovsky and Ust-Bolsheretsky districts of the Kamchatka Territory. It originates in

Lake Nachikinsky Nachikinskoe (russian: Начикинское), or Nachikinskoye, Nachikinsky, is a rural settlement in the Yelizovsky District of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. The administrative center is the village of Sokoch. History The villages of Nachiki and ...

(russian: озеро Начикинское) at an altitude of , and flows into the Bolshaya from the river's mouth on west coast of Kamchatka on the

Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk ( rus, Охо́тское мо́ре, Ohótskoye móre ; ja, オホーツク海, Ohōtsuku-kai) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands ...

. The river is about long, and has a catchment area of . The part of the Bolshaya upstream from its confluence with the Plotnikova is named ''Bystraya''.

Settlement

Bolsheretsk Bolsheretsk (russian: Большерецк) or Bolsheretsky jail is an abandoned village on the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. Over a 200-year period, Bolsheretsk was a military fort, a prison, a port, and a village. Bolsheretsk ...

was founded in 1703 as a fort on the Plotnikova. In 1707 rebels destroyed the fort. In 1711 it was rebuilt where the Bystraya and Plotnikova rivers join to form the Bolshaya, 58 kilometres from the river mouth on the

. In the late 1920s the village was abandoned and the inhabitants moved to the new village of

Kavalerskoye Kavalerskoye (russian: Кавалерское) is a village and rural settlement in the Ust-Bolsheretsky District of the Kamchatka Krai federal subject of Russia. The village is the administrative center of the Kavalerskoye rural settlement . Loca ...

, and to village of Ust-Bolsheretsk at the mouth of the Bolshaya, which from 1926 became the center of Ust-Bolsheretsky District.

Fish

The river is used by locals and tourists for fishing from rafts or boats. Fish species include

rainbow trout The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead (sometimes called "steelhead trout") is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coasta ...

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grayling Grayling or Greyling may refer to: Animals Fish * Grayling, generically, any fish of the genus ''Thymallus'' in the family Salmonidae ** European grayling (''Thymallus thymallus''), the European species of the genus ''Thymallus'' ** Arctic grayli ...

Chinook salmon The Chinook salmon (''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'') is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon in North America, as well as the largest in the genus ''Oncorhynchus''. Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other ve ...

coho salmon The coho salmon (''Oncorhynchus kisutch;'' Karuk: achvuun) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family and one of the five Pacific salmon species. Coho salmon are also known as silver salmon or "silvers". The scientific species name i ...

sockeye salmon The sockeye salmon (''Oncorhynchus nerka''), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it. This species is a P ...

chum salmon The chum salmon (''Oncorhynchus keta''), also known as dog salmon or keta salmon, is a species of anadromous salmonid fish from the genus '' Oncorhynchus'' (Pacific salmon) native to the coastal rivers of the North Pacific and the Beringian A ...

and pink salmon.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Plotnikova River Rivers of Kamchatka Krai Tributaries of the Bolshaya