Bolshoy Cheremshan (russian: Большой Черемшан, literally ''Greater Cheremshan'', tt-Cyrl, Олы Чирмешән, ''Olı Çirmeşän'') is a river in

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tributary of the

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between the

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and

Maly Cheremshan The Maly Cheremshan (literally, ''The Little Cheremshan'', russian: Малый Черемшан; tt-Cyrl, Кече Чирмешән, ''Keçe Çirmeşän'') is a river in Tatarstan and Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary o ...

. The maximal discharge is (1979), and the minimal mineralization is 600-800 ''mg/l''. The riverbed is meandering and the meadows are wide. From around 1650 the Trans-Kama Line of forts ran along or near the Cheremshan.

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* Rivers of Tatarstan Rivers of Samara Oblast Rivers of Ulyanovsk Oblast {{Russia-river-stub