Maly Cheremshan River

Keçe Çirmeşän, Maly Cheremshan River
Origin	Tatarsky Yeltan, Chistopolsky District, Tatarstan
Mouth	Bolshoy Cheremshan River, Ulyanovsk Oblast
Basin countries	Tatarstan and Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia
Length	213 km
Basin area	3,190 km²

The Maly Cheremshan (literally, The Little Cheremshan, Russian: Малый Черемшан; Tatar Cyrillic: Кече Чирмешән, Latin: Keçe Çirmeşän) is a river in Tatarstan and Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary of the Bolshoy Cheremshan River. Its length is 213 km (192 of them in Tatarstan) and its drainage basin is 3,190 km². It origins near Tatarsky Yeltan, Chistopolsky District, Tatarstan and falls to the Bolshoy Cheremshan in Ulyanovsk Oblast. Maximal water discharge is 702 m³/s (1979).

Major tributaries are Cheboksarka, Savrushka, Bagana, Adamka, Vyalyulkina, Baranka, Marasa, Ata, Shiya, Yukhmachka Rivers. The maximal mineralization 500-700 mg/l. Average sediment in mouth per year is 80 mm. In the middle stream the river crosses the biggest forest in Transkama Tatarstan. Since 1978 it is protected as natural monument of Tatarstan. ^[1]

References

1. ^ (Tatar) "Кече Чирмешән". Tatar Encyclopedia. Kazan: Tatarstan Republic Academy of Sciences Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002.