Tura (river)
river in Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts, Russia
The Tura (near the source also — Dolgaya) is a river in the Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts of Russia, a left tributary of the Tobol (basin of the Irtysh). It flows across the Tura Plain.
Etymology
In 18th-century sources, G. F. Müller explained the origin of the hydronym from the Tatar tura — "city", referring to its location on the river of Chimgi-Tura. Modern hypotheses link the hydronym to the Ural-Altaic root "tur" — "watercourse, body of water", which passed into several Ugric and Turkic languages.
Physical and geographical characteristics
The length of the river is 1,030 kilometres (640 mi), and the drainage basin area is 80,400 square kilometres (31,000 sq mi). It is navigable for 635 km from its mouth. The elevation of the mouth is 42.2 m above sea level. The average annual discharge 184 km from the mouth is 202.7 cubic metres per second (7,160 cu ft/s).
It begins at an elevation of 370 m above sea level from the confluence of several streams 4 km southwest of the Khrebet-Uralsky railway station. Forest cover of the drainage basin is 51%; in its upper part, crystalline mountain rocks predominate, while in the lower reaches, sedimentary rocks are present.
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