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 Kama River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kama (Russian: река́ Ка́ма; Tatar: Çulman) is a river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga.
The largest tributaries to the Kama are Kosa, Vishera, Sylva, Chusovaya, Belaya, and Vyatka Rivers.
The cities situated on the banks of the Kama are Solikamsk, Berezniki, Perm, Sarapul, and Naberezhnye Chelny.
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 Encyclopedia: Kama River
In hydrology, the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time.
The Vishera River (Вишера in Russian) is a river in the Perm Oblast in Russia, left tributary of the Kama River.
The Sylva River (Сылва in Russian), a river in the Sverdlov Oblast and Perm Oblast in Russia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kama-River   (508 words)

  
 URAL MOUNTAINS - Online Information article about URAL MOUNTAINS
RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c.
This, although pierced by the rivers which rise in the longitudinal valley just mentioned (Ai, Upper Byelaya), nevertheless rises to a much greater height than the main range.
Kama, and on the Usva (basin of the Chusovaya), and about 500,000 tons are raised annually.
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 International conference "From molecules towards materials"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There are two monasteries, The Blagoveshchensky (Annunciation) founded in the 13th century by Grand Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich to guard the river and approach to the Kremlin, and the Pechorsky (Cave) dating from the 14th century, but the buildings only date from the 17th.
It is situated on the right bank of the river Volga, below the mouth of the river Vetluga, 60 km to the North-West of Cheboksary and 104 km to the south-east of Yoshkar-Ola.
The most important constructions of the city are: baroque Petropavlovsky cathedral (1757-64, with the bell-tower of the 19th century), the buildings of Empire style for example the cathedral of Spaso-Preobrazhensky monastery (1798-1832) and numerous examples of architecture of the 20th century.
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 AllRefer.com - Chusovaya (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
Chusovaya[chOOsuvI´u] Pronunciation Key, river, c.460 mi (740 km) long, E European Russia.
It rises in the central Urals and flows northwest through a major industrial region to join the Kama Reservoir near Perm, site of the Kama hydroelectric station.
The Chusovaya is navigable c.250 mi (400 km).
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
and the upper Prut and Siretul rivers, it is heavily forested [Bukovina means beechwood in Romanian] and produces timber, textiles, grain, and livestock.
It is a rail junction and industrial center situated in a fertile agricultural zone of the Carpathian foothills.
Oka Oka, river, c.600 mi (970 km) long, rising in the Sayan Mts., Buryat Republic, S central Siberian Russia.
www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=Perm+Oblast&rc=10&fh=10&fr=11   (464 words)

  
 Chusovaya river   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Ural history as well as the history of all the peoples inhabiting the region have always been associated with the Chusovaya river.
With length of 700 km part of it crosses polluted industrial areas, however there are many delightful places with swift shoals giving way to still backwaters, a broad deep riverbed split by many rapids, and noiseless pools which end up in a torrents splashing against water polished large stones.
The rocks or "the stones", - as they are commonly called on the Chusovaya, the most dangerous of them being called "boitsy" (warriors) make one of the most spectacular sights of the river.
virlib.eunnet.net /Chusovaja/eng/p0.html   (208 words)

  
 Yekaterinburg --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It lies along the Iset River, which is a tributary of the Tobol River, and on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains.
In 1553 the fortified settlement of Tsaryovo Gorodishche was founded on a large ancient tumulus or artificial mound (Russian kurgan); it became a town in 1782, and by the late 19th century it was the focus of the surrounding farming area, especially after the building of...
Siberia is a vast expanse of land that stretches across Russia from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
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 Permian Komis - Inf2
According to the original sources dated from 15th to 17th centuries, ancient inhabitants of the Upper Kama River were referred to as the Permian, the Permich, the Permyak.
At its height in the fourteenth up to the seven-teenth centuries, the Great Perm extended from the source of Kama River in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east, and from the Upper Pechora River in the north to the Chusovaya River in the south.
In 1558, Ivan IV the Terrible, aiming to secure the eastern boundaries of Russia, granted to the family of Stroganovs, wealthy landowners and manufacturers, a patent for the large area beginning from Solikamsk on the Kama River and extending to the River Chu-sovaya.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
8,538,610), capital of Thailand and of Bangkok prov., SW Thailand, on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River, near the Gulf of Thailand.
Chusovaya Chusovayachoosevī´e, river, c.460 mi (740 km) long, E European Russia.
It runs roughly parallel with the main Rocky Mt. range to the northeast, from which it is separated by the Rocky Mt. Trench, there occupied by the Fraser River.
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 Trans-Siberian railway - Cities and towns - Ural and Trans-Uralia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The city is situated in Middle Ural area, at Kama r., lower of inflowing of Chusovaya r.
Iset river dividing the city to west and east parts was turned into system of steppedly situated reservoirs (the largest is Verkhne-Isetskiy pond, another ones - Gorodskoy, Parkovya and Nizhneisetskiy).
Economical importance of Tyumen more increased in the 1840 years from opening in Siberia river steam navigation (in 1838 in Tyumen the first in Siberia steamship was built) and from building in 1885 of the railway Yekaterinburg - Tyumen.
www.transsib.ru /Eng/city-ural.htm   (3065 words)

  
 Perm
It is a transfer center for rail and river traffic and a major producer of machinery in the Urals industrial region.
Kama - Kama, river, c.1,260 mi (2,030 km) long, E European Russia, the chief left tributary of the Volga.
Chusovaya - Chusovaya, river, c.460 mi (740 km) long, E European Russia.
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 Chusovaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The floods usually take place from mid-April to mid-June.
The Chusovaya River freezes up between late October-early December and stays under the ice until mid-April- first weeks of May.
The Chusovaya River is famous for its huge shore rocks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chusovaya   (182 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
Several tributaries of the Kama with their sources in the Urals are typical mountain rivers, although their flow velocity decreases significantly on the plains.
The rivers in the northeastern part of the region have high water levels year round, while those in the south become very low and even dry up.
Ponds in the Kama area control the flow of small rivers and are also used to meet the needs of smale-scale power generation, timber rafting, fishing, water supply, irrigation, and for beautifying rural landscapes.
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 Lecture 16 Ethnоnyms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A general name of the river system including r.
Itil from eastuary to the mouth of Kama, r.
River Kama from the source to the mouth of r.
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 Newsletter, November 2004 - Missionary trips
The missionaries encountered a lot of difficulties, such as the need to cross water barriers, to search for "an accident victim" on the spot, to provide him the first aid, to construct an improvised stretcher to transport him and to solve many other problems arising on rafting trips.
Rafting missions were also undertaken by parishioners of the Church of the Elevation of the Cross in Ufa down the Belaya River, the Druzhina (Team) patriotic club down the Chusovaya River in the Yekaterinburg diocese, and the Krasnoyarsk diocese Mission Department along the Angara River.
It was planned to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Tomsk and was patronised by the Tomsk Regional Administration.
www.rondtb.msk.ru /newslet/en/54_3_en.htm   (1783 words)

  
 Gazprom
Testing grounds for solid household wastes storage were restored at the Kungurskaya pipeline operation division, oil spillage was liquidated on the pond located at the Bardymskoye testing ground for solid household wastes storage.
The iactivities included water treatment facilities assembly and commissioning, introduction of four motor washing units, boiler conversion to natural gas, sewage water treatment byaero-ydrocavitation technology, construction of compressor stations for utilization of low-pressure associated gas, installation of burners for oil-containing waste utilization, overhaul of absorption well.
Water resources protection embraced laboratory control over the treatment facilities performance, sewage quality analysis, monitoring of water- bearing horizon and surface water, small river bed clearing, sanitary zone maintenance in the vicinity of artesian and absorption wells, detoxication of household waste and sewage water at treatment facilities of compressor stations and living settlements.
www.gazprom.com /eng/articles/article8945.shtml   (3219 words)

  
 ironwork --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Before the October Revolution (1917) a small settlement with an ironworks, Konstantinovka developed in the Soviet era into a major industrial centre.
It was a deliberate attempt to create a new style, free of the imitative...
The Ukrainian city of Kryvy Rih is situated at the confluence of the Inhulets and Saksahan rivers.
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 Chusovaya - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Its principal tributaries are Mezhevaya Utka, Serebryanka, Koyva, Us'va, Revda, and Lys'va. The Chusovaya River is widely used for water supply: its water is moved from the Volchikhinsky Reservoir (37 sq km) to the Verkhneisetsky Reservoir to supply Yekaterinburg.
This page was last modified 09:15, 9 Jun 2005.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Chusovaya contains research on
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Chusovaya   (159 words)

  
 Plesetsk
The left flank of the launch complex array is on the Yemtsa River, and consists of four launch complexes for Soyuz and Molniya launch vehicles, analogous to the R-7 Semyorka launch facilities at Baikonur.
On the right flank of Plesetsk is the Kosmos-3 Voskhod launch complex, two Chusovaya launch complexes at LC-132 for Kosmos-3M, and until 1974 the Raduga launch complex at LC-133 for the Kosmos-2M.
Living areas for the launch service staff are near the pads, together with a nitrogen-oxygen plant, guidance stations, a work management centre, tracking stations, the railroad yard, and a communications centre.
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 Vasiliev's stonecutting workshop_Florentine mosaic
In our exhibitional collection we have several pictures made in the technique of the Florentine mosaic.
There are the Ural landscapes: The Chusovaya River", "Winter village", "Bullfinch".
Various stones were used at manufacturing these pictures: Tagil pink and brown marble, white and grey marble, serpentine, dolomite, ofiocalcite, azurite, rhodonite.
www.malachit.ru /english/flor.html   (290 words)

  
 World War 1 and 2 - Kama River
World War 1 and 2 - Kama River
Kama (Ка́ма) (Tatar: Çulman) is a river in Russia, left tributary of Volga (and the largest one - in fact it is larger than Volga before junction).
The largest tributaries to Kama are Kosa, Vishera, Sylva, Chusovaya, Belaya, Vyatka.
www.worldwardiary.com /history/Kama_River   (98 words)

  
 TOURISM http://www.rest.mplik.ru/TOURISM/images0.ru.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The competition on the Belaya River, color photos, 1994.
The name Belaya river is the widespread one, there are several different rivers with this name.
The competition was on Belaya which is the left tributary of the Kuban river on Caucasus flowing into Krasnodar water-reservoir.
www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/mes/russia/ural/rest.html   (193 words)

  
 In Place: A Seminar Conference
Considerable attention has been given to both Walker Percy's distinction between dyadic "signaling" and triadic "sign-making" and his fiction's relevance to the American South and particularly the Mississippi River Delta.
The paper will examine the corpus of advice literature for tourists traveling down the Chusovaya River published in Russia during the period from the early 1960s to the 1990s.
It will analyze several intertwined discourses (imperial, fictional, scientific, industrial and militarist) that different travel guides applied to the river’s landscape, and how different types of representation activated multiple social and cultural identities in the modern Soviet subject.
english.uiowa.edu /reading_matters/2004-05/inplace.html   (880 words)

  
 River Pressreleases international 1999
Dams that obstruct river flow are also threats.
The Vistula River, known in Poland as the "Queen of Polish Rivers" is one of Europe's largest rivers and one which remains close
The Vistula is one of Europe's largest rivers and one which remains close to its natural state.
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 IN PLACE
Taking a Korean short fiction written during Japanese colonial rule as an example, this study analyzes the colonized subject’s sense of space as it is inscribed in materialist terms of the production of the text.
“Down the river, back to the origins: the travel guides to the Chusovaya River
down the Chusovaya River published in Russia during the period from the early
www.uiowa.edu /~ipops/in%20place%20symposium.htm   (770 words)

  
 The Trans-Siberian route, the map of Trans-Siberian, stops along the way -- WayToRussia.Net
The end of Evreiskaya region, start of Khabarovsky krai (8481 km).
Crossing Amur river (on 8482 km) via the longest Trans-Siberian bridge - 2612 meters.
A friendly Russian city on Amur river just next to China.
www.waytorussia.net /TransSiberian/Route.html   (1692 words)

  
 My Virtual Photo Album
All the following pictures were shot in Russia, at our dacha on the bank of the river Chusovaya (West Ural).
I don't know yet how to name it.
If you want to see her pictures, you are welcome to "The Olga Gabova's Photoalbum".
www.angelfire.com /az/JuliaBoudnikRussia/images.html   (53 words)

  
 paleng2_0p147abs
Ten of them come from the uppermost Bashkirian Asatausky Horizon of the Urals.
Asatausky Horizon were described from the hypostratotype section “Sokol” along the Chusovaya River in the
The remaining forms were described from the sections on the rivers Askyn, Yuryuzan’, Sim,
www.maik.rssi.ru /cgi-bin/search.pl?type=abstract&name=paleng&number=2&year=0&page=147   (102 words)

  
 Aircraft Carrying 4 Goes Missing Over Urals - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Rescuers from the Emergencies Ministry have started searching for the aircraft, the president of the Russian Federation of Aviation Enthusiasts, Viktor Zabolotskiy, told MosNews on Thursday.
An official from the information service of the Emergencies Ministry told MosNews that the aircraft had been flying from the town of Pervouralsk to the city of Perm over the Chusovaya River.
The last radio contact between the pilot and air traffic control took place on Wednesday afternoon, the official said.
www.mosnews.com /news/2004/07/08/aircraft.shtml   (722 words)

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