Klyazma

The Klyazma (Template:Lang-rus, Klyaz'ma or Kliazma), a river in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, forms a left tributary of the Oka.<ref name=bse>Клязьма, Great Soviet Encyclopedia</ref>

The Template:Convert long river's drainage basin is Template:Convert.<ref name=bse/> The Klyazma usually freezes up in November and stays under the ice until mid-April, although in faster-moving stretches ice-free water occurs until the air temperature drops below Template:Convert.

The largest tributaries of the Klyazma include (from source to mouth):<ref name=gvr>«Река ОЗЕРО МАЛЫЕ ПОДБОРЦЫ», Russian State Water Registry</ref> Template:Div col

• Ucha (left)
• Vorya (left)
• Sherna (left)
• Kirzhach (left)
• Peksha (left)
• Polya (right)
• Koloksha (left)
• Nerl (left)
• Sudogda (right)
• Nerekhta (right)
• Uvod (left)
• Teza (left)
• Lukh (left)
• Suvoroshch (right)

The Klyazma is navigable within Template:Convert from its estuary and in the area of the Klyazminskoye Reservoir. The cities of Gorokhovets, Mendeleyevo, Pavlovsky Posad, Vladimir, Kovrov, Shchyolkovo, Losino-Petrovsky, Noginsk, Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Sobinka and Vyazniki stand on the shores of the Klyazma River.

The basin of the Klyazma formed the center of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality in the 12th to 14th centuries CE.

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