The Shosha () 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 w ...
in
Zubtsovsky,
Staritsky,
Kalininsky and in
Konakovsky Districts of
Tver Oblast
Tver Oblast (russian: Тверска́я о́бласть, ''Tverskaya oblast'', ), from 1935 to 1990 known as Kalinin Oblast (), is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inh ...
and
Lotoshinsky District of
Moscow Oblast in
Russia
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. It is a right
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 drai ...
of the
Volga
The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchm ...
. The length of the Shosha is . The area of its
basin is .
The river flows into the
Ivankovo Reservoir
Ivankovo Reservoir or Ivankovskoye Reservoir (russian: link=no, Иваньковское водохранилище), informally known as the Moscow Sea, is the uppermost reservoir on the Volga, in Moscow and Tver Oblasts of Russia, located some ...
. The Shosha freezes up in November through early January and stays icebound until late March or early April.
The source of the Shosha is in Zubtsovsky District of Tver Oblast, northwest of the
selo of
Knyazhyi Gory. It flows north, turns northeast, enters Staritsky District and turns north. At the village of
Sidorovo the Shosha turns east and crosses two tiny bits of Moscow Oblast, further downstream crossing to Kalininsky District of Tver Oblast. Downstream of the village of
Novinki the Shosha enters the Ivankovo Reservoir, where it accepts two of its major tributaries, the
Lama (right) and the
Inyukha (left). 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 ...
s of
Kozlovo and
Novozavidovsky are located at the right bank of the reservoir. The Ivankovo Reservoir is crossed by the dam of the
Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway
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, and downstream of the dam the Volga enters from the left, at the former location of the mouth of the Shosha before the reservoir was filled in 1937.
The middle course of the Shosha, upstream of Kozlovo, is located in
Zavidovo nature reserve, a closed area which is only accessible to high-level state employees.
The drainage basin of the Shosha includes the whole Lotoshinsky District, the southwest of Konakovsky and Kalininsky District, the southeast of Staritsky District, the east of Zubtsovsky District, as well as the northern parts of
Volokolamsky and
Shakhovskoy Districts of Moscow Oblast, and minor areas in
Klinsky and
Istrinsky District
Istrinsky District (russian: И́стринский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #86/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the western central part of the o ...
s, also in Moscow Oblast. The town of
Volokolamsk
Volokolamsk (russian: Волокола́мск) is a town and the administrative center of Volokolamsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Gorodenka River, not far from its confluence with the Lama River, northwest of Moscow. Po ...
and the urban-type settlements of
Shakhovskaya,
Lotoshino,
Izoplit, Kozlovo, and Novozavidovsky lie in the drainage basin of the Shosha.
References
{{Volga River
Rivers of Tver Oblast
Rivers of Moscow Oblast