The Sakmara (russian: Сакмара; ba, Һаҡмар, Haqmar) is a

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that drains the southern tip of the Ural Mountains south into the river

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. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . It is a right

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of the Ural, which it meets in

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. The source of the Sakmara is in the

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. Other towns along the Sakmara are Yuldybayevo (Bashkortostan), Kuvandyk, and

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close to the Wozdwizhenskaya Fortress (Orenburg Oblast). It rises in the southern

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 ...

about west-southwest of

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and flows south through a valley with some canyon development. At Kuvandyk it swings west, leaves the mountains and flows west parallel to the Ural River with many meanders for about (straight-line distance) before turning south to meet the Ural. Major tributaries are the Salmysh and the

Bolshoy Ik The Bolshoy Ik (russian: Большой Ик, literally ''Greater Ik''; ba, Оло Ыйыҡ, ''Olo Iyıq'') is a tributary of the Sakmara, which flows south from the southern end of the Ural Mountains in Bashkortostan and Orenburg Oblast, Russ ...

, both from the north.Сакмара

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The

Sakmarian In the geologic timescale, the Sakmarian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is a subdivision of the Cisuralian Epoch or Series. The Sakmarian lasted between 293.52 and million years ago (Ma). It was preceded by the Asselian and followed by t ...

Age of the

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Period of geological time is named for the Sakmara River.

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Rivers of Bashkortostan Rivers of Orenburg Oblast Ural basin {{Russia-river-stub