List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European and an Asian part. The dividing line is generally considered to be the Ural Mountains. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea. The Asian part is drained into the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are the Volga (which is the longest river in Europe), Pechora, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dnieper (flowing through Russia, then Belarus and Ukraine and into the Black Sea) and the Western Dvina (flowing through Russia, then Belarus and Latvia into the Baltic Sea).
In Asia, important rivers are the Ob, the Irtysh, the Yenisei, the Angara, the Lena, the Amur, the Yana, the Indigirka, and the Kolyma.
In the list below, the rivers are grouped by the seas or oceans into which they flow. Rivers that flow into other rivers are ordered by the proximity of their point of confluence to the mouth of the main river, i.e., the lower in the list, the more upstream.
There is an alphabetical list of rivers at the end of this article.
Barents Sea and White Sea (Arctic Ocean)
[edit]The rivers in this section are sorted east to west, and anticlockwise around the Kola Peninsula.
- Pechora (north-east of Naryan-Mar)
- Usa (west of Usinsk)
- Kolva (near Usinsk)
- Bolshaya Synya
- Usa (west of Usinsk)
- Northern Dvina (in Severodvinsk)
- Pinega (in Ust-Pinega)
- Yomtsa (near Bolshaya Gora (ru))
- Vaga (near Bereznik)
- Uftyuga (near Krasnoborsk)
- Vychegda (in Kotlas)
- Yug (in Veliki Ustyug)
- Sukhona (in Veliki Ustyug)
- Mezen (near Mezen)
- Nautsiyoki
- Onega (in Onega)
- Kem (in Kem)
- Niva (in Kandalaksha)
- Varzuga (in Kuzomen)
- Malaya Belaya (on the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast)
- Ponoy (in Ponoy)
- Iokanga (in Iokanga)
- Voronya
- Tuloma
The rivers in this section are sorted southwest to northeast.
- Pregolya (near Kaliningrad)
- Alle/Lava (in Znamensk)
- Instruch/Inster (in Chernyakhovsk)
- Angrapa (in Chernyakhovsk)
- Pissa (near Chernyakhovsk)
- Krasnaya River (in Gusev)
- Nemunas/Neman (near Šilutė, Lithuania)
- Daugava/Western Dvina (near Riga, Latvia)
- Narva (near Narva)
- Plyussa (near Slantsy)
- Lake Peipus (near Slantsy)
- Velikaya (near Pskov)
- Kukhva River (near Ostrov)
- Velikaya (near Pskov)
- Luga (in Ust-Luga)
- Neva (in Saint Petersburg)
- Chernaya (into Kamenka River (Saint Petersburg))
- Okhta (in Saint Petersburg)
- Okkervil (in Saint Petersburg)
- Izhora (in Ust-Izhora)
- Tosna (in Otradnoye)
- Mga (near Mga)
- Lake Ladoga (in Shlisselburg)
- Volkhov (near Volkhov)
- Tigoda (near Kirishi)
- Vishera (near Velikiy Novgorod)
- Lake Ilmen (in Velikiy Novgorod)
- Msta (near Velikiy Novgorod)
- Peretna (in Toporok)
- Uver (near Berezovsky Ryadok)
- Berezayka (in Berezovsky Ryadok)
- Lake Mstino (near Vyshny Volochyok)
- Tsna (near Vyshny Volochyok)
- Pola (near Staraya Russa)
- Lovat (near Staraya Russa)
- Shelon (near Shimsk)
- Msta (near Velikiy Novgorod)
- Syas (in Syasstroy)
- Svir (near Lodeynoye Pole)
- Vuoksi (in Solovyovo and Priozersk)
- Volkhov (near Volkhov)
- Sestra (near Sestroretsk)
The rivers in this section are sorted west to east.
- Dnieper (near Kherson, Ukraine)
- Mius (into Sea of Azov near Taganrog)
- Don (into Sea of Azov near Azov)
- Temernik (near Rostov-on-Don)
- Manych (in Manychskaya, east of Rostov-on-Don)
- Sal (in Semikarakorsk)
- Donets (near Semikarakorsk)
- Khopyor (near Serafimovich)
- Osered' (near Pavlovsk)
- Bityug (near Pavlovsk)
- Voronezh (near Voronezh)
- Yeya (into Sea of Azov near Yeysk)
- Kuban (into Sea of Azov near Temryuk)
- Laba (in Ust-Labinsk)
- Mzymta (near Sochi)
The rivers in this section are sorted west to east.
- Sulak (north of Makhachkala)
- Andi Koysu (near Gimry)
- Avar Koysu (near Gimry)
- Terek (near Kizlyar)
- Malka (near Prokhladny)
- Kuma (north of Kizlyar)
- Podkumok (near Georgiyevsk)
- Volga (near Astrakhan)
- Yeruslan (near Kamyshin)
- Tereshka (near Saratov)
- Bolshoy Irgiz (near Volsk)
- Maly Irgiz
- Chapayevka (near Chapayevsk)
- Samara (in Samara)
- Sok (in Samara)
- Kondurcha (north of Samara)
- Bolshoy Cheremshan (near Dimitrovgrad)
- Bezdna
- Aktay
- Kama (south of Kazan)
- Kazanka (in Kazan)
- Sviyaga (west of Kazan)
- Ilet (near Volzhsk)
- Anish (near Kozlovka)
- Malaya Kokshaga (near Kokshaysk)
- Bolshaya Kokshaga (near Kokshaysk)
- Tsivil (near Novocheboksarsk)
- Rutka
- Vetluga (near Kozmodemyansk)
- Sura (in Vasilsursk)
- Kerzhenets (near Lyskovo)
- Kudma (between Kstovo and Lyskovo)
- Oka (in Nizhny Novgorod)
- Uzola (near Balakhna)
- Unzha (in Yuryevets)
- Nyomda (near Yuryevets)
- Kostroma (in Kostroma)
- Kotorosl (in Yaroslavl)
- Sogozha (near Poshekhonye)
- Sheksna (in Cherepovets)
- Lake Beloye (near Belozersk)
- Suda (near Cherepovets)
- Mologa (near Vesyegonsk)
- Kashinka (near Kalyazin)
- Nerl (near Kalyazin)
- Medveditsa (near Kimry)
- Dubna (in Dubna)
- Sestra (near Dubna)
- Shosha (near Konakovo)
- Tvertsa (in Tver)
- Vazuza (in Zubtsov)
- Selizharovka (in Selizharovo)
- Ural (in Atyrau, Kazakhstan)
Arctic Ocean, east of the Urals
[edit]The rivers in this section are sorted west to east.
- Ob (to Gulf of Ob)
- Synya
- Sob
- Irtysh (near Khanty-Mansiysk)
- Tromyogan
- Vatinsky Yogan
- Vakh (near Nizhnevartovsk)
- Tym (in Ust-Tym)
- Kievsky Yogan
- Vasyugan (in Kargasok)
- Parabel (near Kargasok)
- Ket (near Kolpashevo)
- Chulym (in Ust-Chulym)
- Tom (50 km downstream from Tomsk)
- Aley (near Barnaul)
- Kazym
- Chaya
- Barnaulka
- Kasmala
- Katun River (in Biysk)
- Biya River (in Biysk)
- Chulyshman (into Lake Teletskoye)
- Nadym (into Gulf of Ob in Khorovaya)
- Pur (into Taz Estuary in Ivay-Sale)
- Taz (into Taz Estuary in Tazovsky)
- Yenisei
- Tanama
- Turukhan (near Turukhansk)
- Abakan (in Abakan)
- Kureika River
- Yeloguy
- Big Kheta
- Sym
- Lower Tunguska
- Bakhta River
- Stony Tunguska
- Big Pit River
- Kan River
- Mana River
- Bazaikha River
- Kacha River
- Kem River
- Khemchik River
- Khantayka
- Angara River (in Strelka)
- Oka (near Bratsk)
- Bolshaya Belaya (near Usolye-Sibirskoye)
- Irkut (in Irkutsk)
- Selenga (into Lake Baikal near Kabansk)
- Uda (in Ulan Ude)
- Khilok River
- Chikoy River
- Orkhon River (Mongolia)
- Tuul River (Mongolia)
- Dzhida River
- Eg River (Mongolia)
- Barguzin River (into Lake Baikal in Ust-Barguzin)
- Turka River (into Lake Baikal)
- Upper Angara River (into Lake Baikal near Severobaykalsk)
- Taseyeva River
- Pyasina (east of Taz Estuary)
- Khatanga (near Kozhevnikovo)
- Anabar (at Khorgo)
- Suolama
- Udya (Udzha)
- Malaya Kuonamka
- Bolshaya Kuonamka
- Uele
- Olenyok (in Ust-Olenyok)
- Lena (near Tiksi)
- Vilyuy (near Sangar)
- Lungkha
- Tyugyuene
- Sitte
- Khanchaly
- Kenkeme
- Lyapiske
- Tympylykan
- Belyanka
- Batamay
- Aldan (in Batamay)
- Bolshoy Patom
- Olyokma
- Buotama
- Menda
- Tamma
- Myla
- Namana
- Markha
- Markhachan
- Sinyaya
- Lyutenge
- Tuolba
- Linde
- Suola
- Kyuelenke
- Muna
- Motorchuna
- Molodo
- Cherendey (left)
- Biryuk (left)
- Nyuya (in Nyuya)
- Derba
- Ura
- Peleduy
- Vitim (in Vitim)
- Chaya
- Ichera
- Chechuy
- Pilyuda
- Chuya
- Kirenga (in Kirensk)
- Tayura
- Kuta
- Tutura
- Ilga
- Kyundyudey
- Undyulyung (From the Verkhoyansk Range)
- Nuora
- Begidyan
- Khoruongka
- Sobolokh-Mayan
- Menkere
- Natara
- Uel Siktyakh
- Dzhardzhan
- Byosyuke
- Tikyan
- Dyanyshka
- Eyekit
- Yana (in Nizhneyansk)
- Chondon
- Sellyakh
- Omoloy
- Kyuyol-Yuryakh
- Khroma
- Sundrun
- Bogdashkina
- Volchya
- Gusinaya
- Indigirka (near Tabor, Sakha)
- Alazeya
- Kolyma (near Ambarchik)
- Anyuy (near Nizhnekolymsk)
- Omolon (±80 km upstream from Nizhnekolymsk)
- Popovka
- Yasachnaya
- Zyryanka
- Ozhogina
- Sededema
- Buyunda
- Seymchan
- Balygychan
- Sugoy
- Debin
- Bakhapcha
- Taskan
- Korkodon
- Beryozovka
- Tenka
- Ayan-Yuryakh
- Kulu
- Chaun River
- Palyavaam River
- Pegtymel River (flowing into Chukchi Sea)
- Amguema River
- Ioniveyem River
- Chegitun River
The rivers in this section are sorted northeast to southwest, and anticlockwise around the Kamchatka Peninsula.
- Anadyr (in the Bering Sea)
- Velikaya
- Khatyrka
- Ukelayat
- Kamchatka (in Ust-Kamchatsk)
- Avacha (near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky)
- Bolshaya (west coast of Kamchatka Peninsula)
- Kikhchik (west coast of Kamchatka Peninsula)
- Penzhina
- Gizhiga
- Paren
- Yama
- Yana
- Ola
- Arman
- Taui
- Ulbeya
- Inya
- Kukhtuy
- Okhota
- Urak
- Uda (in Chumikan)
- Amur (in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur)
- Anyuy (in Naykhin)
- Ussuri (in Khabarovsk)
- Bikin River (near Bikin)
- Kontrovod (near Luchegorsk)
- Bikin River (near Bikin)
- Gur
- Gorin
- Bureya (near Raychikhinsk)
- Zeya (in Blagoveshchensk)
- Shilka
- Amgun
- Argun
- Amazar
- Tumen (in Sŏsura-ri, North Korea)
Endorheic Siberian rivers
[edit]- Bagan (river)
- Burla (river)
- Chulym (Malye Chany basin)
- Karasuk (river)
- Kargat (river)
- Kuchuk (river)
- Kulunda (river)
Unsorted
[edit]Alphabetical list
[edit]A–G
[edit]Abakan, Alazeya, Aldan, Aley, Ambarnaya, Amga, Amur, Anabar, Anadyr, Angara River, Angrapa, Anyuy (Kolyma), Anyuy (Amur), Argun, Avacha, Barguzin, Bashkaus, Belaya, Berezayka, Bikin, Bityug, Biya, Bolshaya Belaya, Bolshaya Pyora (Amur Oblast), Bolshaya Pyora (Komi Republic), Buotama, Bureya, Chagoda, Chebdar, Cheptsa, Chernaya, Chulym (Ob), Chulyshman, Chusovaya, Cupid, Daugava/Western Dvina, Dep, Desna, Dnieper, Don, (Seversky) Donets, Dubna, El'duga
I–L
[edit]Ik, Ilek, Indigirka, Ingoda, Instruch, Iokanga, Irkut, Irtysh, Iset, Ishim, Istra, Izhora, Kama, Kamo River (Russia), Kamchatka, Kashinka, Kasplya, Katanga, Katun, Kazanka, Kerzhenets, Ket, Khatanga, Kheta, Khopyor, Kirenga, Klyazma, Kolva (Usa), Kolva (Vishera), Kolyma, Kondurcha, Kosovka, Kosovoy, Kostroma, Kotorosl, Kotuy, Kozhim, Krasnaya River, Kuban, Kubr, Kuma, Kunya, Laba, Lama, Lava/Łyna, Lena, Lovat, Lower Tunguska, Luga, Lyutenge
M–S
[edit]Malka, Malaya Belaya, Manych, Markha, Markha (Vilyuy), Matta, Maya, Mezen, Mga, Miass, Mius, Moksha, Mologa, Moskva, Msta, Mulyanka, Muna, Nadym, Nara, Narva, Nautsiyoki River, Neglinnaya, Nemunas/Neman, Nercha, Nerl (Klyazma), Nerl (Volga), Neva, Niva, Northern Dvina, Nyuya, Ob, Oka (Volga), Oka (Angara River), Olenyok, Olyokma, Om, Omolon, Onega, Onon, Oredezh, Osuga, Oyat, Pakhra, Pasha, Parabel, Pechora, Pinega, Pissa, Plava, Podkamennaya Tunguska, Podkumok, Pola, Polist, Polota, Ponoy, Pra, Pregolya, Protva, Pur, Pyasina, Ravan, Ruza, Sakmara, Sal, Samara, Seim, Selemdzha, Selenga, Sestra River (Leningrad Oblast), Sestra River (Dubna), Šešupė, Setun, Sheksna, Shelon, Shilka, Shosha, Sudost, Sukhona, Suola, Sura, Svir, Sviyaga, Syas, Sylva
T–Z
[edit]Tavda, Tara, Taz, Terek, Tetere, Teza, Tigoda, Tobol, Tom (Ob), Tom (Zeya), Tosna, Tsna River (Moksha basin), Tsna River (Tver Oblast), Tugur, Tumen, Tura, Turukhan, Tvertsa, Tym, Tyung, Uda (Buryatia), Uda (Khabarovsk Krai), Ufa, Uftyuga, Ugra, Unzha, Upa, Upper Angara River, Ural, Usa, Ussuri, Uver, Uzola, Vaga, Vakh, Valdayka, Varzuga, Vasyugan, Velikaya, Vetluga, Vilyuy, Vishera (Volkhov), Vishera (Vychegda), Vishera (Kama), Vitim, Volchya (Vuoksi), Volga, Volkhov, Vologda, Voronezh, Voronya, Vuoksi, Vyatka, Vyazma, Vychegda, Vytegra, Yana, Yauza, Yegoshikha, Yomtsa, Yenisei, Yug, Yuryuzan, Zeya, Zhupanova