Bolshoy Cheremshan

Bolshoy Cheremshan River
Location
Country	Tatarstan and Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Bugulma-Belebey Hills
Mouth	Kuybyshev Reservoir, Volga
• coordinates	54°10′10″N 49°32′44″E
• elevation	53 m (174 ft)
Length	336 km (209 mi)
Basin size	11,500 km2 (4,400 sq mi)
Discharge
• average	1,660 m3/s (59,000 cu ft/s) (maximal)
Basin features
Progression	Volga→ Caspian Sea

Bolshoy Cheremshan (Russian: Большой Черемшан, literally Greater Cheremshan, Tatar: Олы Чирмешән) is a river in Russia, a left tributary of the Volga between the Kama and Samara. It is 336 kilometres (209 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 11,500 square kilometres (4,400 sq mi). It flows southwest to the Volga near Dimitrovgrad. The main inflows are the Bolshaya Sulcha and Maly Cheremshan. The maximal discharge is 1,660 cubic metres per second (59,000 cu ft/s) (1979), and the minimal mineralization is 600-800 mg/l. The riverbed is meandering and the meadows are wide. From around 1650 the Trans-Kama Line of forts ran along or near the Cheremshan.

References

• "Олы Чирмешән". Tatar Encyclopaedia (in Tatar). Kazan: The Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002.