The Shkotovka (russian: Шкотовка, formerly: Цимухе ''Tsimukhe'') is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

in Primorsky Krai,

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. It is long, with the

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...

area of . It rises in the south of the

Sikhote-Alin The Sikhote-Alin (russian: Сихотэ́-Али́нь, , , ) is a mountain range in Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais, Russia, extending about to the northeast of the Russian Pacific seaport of Vladivostok. The highest summits are Tordoki Yani at ...

range (''Bolshoy Vorobey Range'') and flows into the Ussuri Bay of the

Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it h ...

near the

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

Shkotovo Shkotovo (russian: Шко́тово) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and a railway station in Shkotovsky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia. Population: History It was founded in 1865 as a village at the mouth of the Tsymukhe Ri ...

. It was named after

Nikolay Shkot Nikolay Yakovlevich Shkot (russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Шкот; 26 December 1829 – 1 September 1870) was a Russian sailor and explorer, best known for one of the earliest expeditions of the Russian Far East, and as a founder ...

in 1972. The former name of river was ''Tsimukhe'' (''Qimu River''). The localities of

, Novorossiya, Tsentralnoye, and Novaya Moskva stand on the river's bank.

References

Rivers of Primorsky Krai Drainage basins of the Sea of Japan {{Russia-river-stub