Om (river)

Template:Short description Template:Infobox river The Om (Template:Langx, Template:Langx<ref name="автоссылка1">Известия Всесоюзного географического общества. 1959 г. С. 253.</ref>) is a river in the south of the Western Siberian plains in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Irtysh. It is Template:Convert long, and has a drainage basin of Template:Convert.<ref name=gvr>Template:GVR</ref>

The name is probably from the word om "quiet" in the language of the Baraba Tatars.<ref>E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (Moscow, 1998), p. 310.</ref>

Course

The Om rises in the Vasyugan Swamp at the border of Novosibirsk and Tomsk oblasts. It flows mainly across the Baraba Lowland of the West Siberian Plain.<ref name=bse>Омь, Great Soviet Encyclopedia</ref> The city of Omsk is situated at the confluence of Om and Irtysh, and Ust-Tarka at the confluence of the Om and the Tarka rivers. The main tributaries are the Icha, Kama and Tartas.<ref name=bse/>

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