Vyatka (river)
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The VyatkaTemplate:Efn is a river in Kirov Oblast and Tatarstan in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Kama.<ref>Вятка (река в Кировской обл.), Great Soviet Encyclopedia</ref> It is Template:Convert long, and its drainage basin covers Template:Convert.<ref name=gvr>«Река Вятка», Russian State Water Registry</ref>
The Vyatka begins in the northern parts of Udmurtia. It freezes over in the early November and remains so until the second half of April. The Vyatka teems with fish, including bream, roach, tench, sheat fish, pike, European perch, zander, etc.
The Vyatka is navigable from its mouth to the city of Kirov, Template:Convert upriver. Kirov was formerly known as Vyatka after the river before it was renamed in 1934. The main ports are Kirov, Kotelnich, Sovetsk, and Vyatskiye Polyany.<ref name="gr">Template:Cite book</ref>
TributariesEdit
The largest tributaries of the Vyatka are, from source to mouth:<ref name=gvr/> Template:Div col
- Belaya (right)
- Kobra (right)
- Letka (right)
- Belaya Kholunitsa (left)
- Cheptsa (left)
- Velikaya (right)
- Bystritsa (left)
- Moloma (right)
- Pizhma (right)
- Voya (left)
- Urzhumka (right)
- Kilmez (left)
- Shoshma (right)
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