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(Redirected from Samara River) River in Russia This article is about the tributary of the Volga. For the tributary of the Dnieper, see Samara (Dnieper).
Samara River
Samara river in the city of Samara
Location
CountryRussia
Physical characteristics
MouthVolga
 • coordinates53°10′01″N 50°03′43″E / 53.16694°N 50.06194°E / 53.16694; 50.06194
Length594 km (369 mi)
Basin size46,500 km (18,000 sq mi)
Discharge 
 • averageapprox. 50 m/s (1,800 cu ft/s)
Basin features
ProgressionVolgaCaspian Sea
Lower Samara from space flowing left into Volga river, Ural River at lower right

The Samara (Russian: Сама́ра, IPA: [sɐˈmarə]) is a river in Russia and a left-bank tributary of the Volga. It flows into the Volga at the city of Samara. Its largest tributary is the Bolshoy Kinel. It is 594 kilometres (369 mi) long, and its drainage basin covers 46,500 square kilometres (18,000 sq mi).

Honours

The asteroid 26922 Samara was named on 1 June 2007 to honour the river, which has also given the city of Samara its name.

Samarabatrachus, a temnospondyl from the Lower Triassic (Induan) deposits of Borsky District, Samara Oblast, was named after this river in 2016. This animal is known by a skull of 15.3 cm in length.

References

  1. Simon Richmond (2009). "Ulyanovsk and Samara". Russia (Ebook ed.). Lonely Planet. p. 447. ISBN 9781742203737.
  2. Самара (река в Оренбургской и Куйбышевской обл.), Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  3. «Река Бездна», Russian State Water Registry.
  4. JPL
  5. Novikov I.V. (2016). "New Tempospondyl Amphibians from the Basal Triassic of the Obshchii Syrt Highland, Eastern Europe" (PDF). Paleontological Journal (in Russian). 3: 88-100. doi:10.7868/S0031031X16030065. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-01-22.
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Barents Sea and White Sea (Arctic Ocean)
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Black Sea
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Arctic Ocean, east of the Urals
Pacific Ocean/Sea of Okhotsk


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