lv, Zilupe
be, Сінюха , image =Zilupe pie Zilupes pilsētas.jpg , image_size = , image_caption = Zilupe (Sinyaya) near Zilupe, Latvia , source1_location =

Lake Osveya Lake Osveya or Lake Osveyskoye ( be, Асвейскае возера or ; russian: озеро Осве́я or ) is a large freshwater lake in the Vitebsk Region, northern Belarus, near the borders with Latvia and Russia Russia (, , ), or t ...

, mouth = Velikaya , mouth_location = , mouth_coordinates = , progression = , subdivision_type1 = Country , subdivision_name1 =

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

, length = , source1_elevation = , mouth_elevation = , discharge1_avg = , basin_size = The Sinyaya (russian: Синяя, be, Сінюха, lv, Zilupe) is a river in

Verkhnyadzvinsk Raion Verkhnyadzvinsk District (Belarusian: Верхнядзьвінскі раён, Russian: Верхнедвинский район) is a second-level administrative subdivision (raion) of Belarus in the Vitebsk Region. In this district is the norther ...

of Vitebsk Region of

, in Zilupe, Ludza, and Cibla municipalities of

, and in Sebezhsky, Krasnogorodsky, and

Ostrovsky District Ostrovsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia: *Ostrovsky District, Kostroma Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Kostroma Oblast *Ostrovsky District, Pskov Oblast, an administrative and ...

s of

Pskov Oblast Pskov Oblast (russian: Пско́вская о́бласть, ') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the west of the country. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

, part of the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...

basin. It is a left

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...

of the Velikaya River. It is long, and the area of its basin . Its source of the Sinyaya is

, Belarus, close to the place where the borders of Belarus, Latvia and Russia meet. After a short stretch it flows along the Belarus-Latvia border, then turns north and makes the Latvia-Russia border. It further departs from the border into the Latvian side, and flows through the town of Zilupe. North of Zilupe, it returns to the border. Even further north, the river turns northeast and enters Russia. It flows through the urban-type settlement of

Krasnogorodsk Krasnogorodsk (russian: Красногородск; et, Kraasna) is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Krasnogorodsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the Sinyaya River south of Pskov. Municipally ...

and turns east in the selo of Venyavino. The mouth of the Sinyaya is in the village of

Ustye Ustye (russian: У́стье) may refer to several places in Russia: Arkhangelsk Oblast * Ustye, Arkhangelsk Oblast, a village in Ryabovsky Selsoviet of Lensky District Chuvash Republic * Ustye, Chuvash Republic, a ''selo'' in Pitishevskoye Rural ...

References

{{Authority control Rivers of Pskov Oblast Rivers of Vitebsk Region Rivers of Latvia Rivers of Belarus