Kichui

The source is located on the Bugulma-Belebeev Upland , 2 km south of the village of Minnibayevo, Almetyevsk District ^[3] . The direction of flow - the north-west. The mouth is located 2 km north of the village of Lenino in the Novosheshminsky district ^[4] .

The channel is moderately winding, there are old ladies in the flood plain in the lower and middle reaches.

The basin of the river of elongated shape, sandwiched between the basins of the Sheshma and Zai rivers, narrows in the headwaters. It has 46 tributaries, no major ones.

The largest settlements on the river (0.7–1.0 thousand people, 2010): Minnibayevo , Kichuchatovo , Yamashi , Kuzaykino villages (all from Almetyevsk region), Yerykly , Tatarskoye Utyashkino (both from Novosheshminsky district).

Almost along the entire length of 300–2500 m from the left bank, along the river, passes the P239 Kazan – Orenburg highway, which crosses the river in the upper reaches near Almetyevsk .

The river basin is located on a low-hilly elevated plateau, cut by river valleys, ravines and beams, 35% of its territory is covered with forest. The density of the river network is 0.42 km / km². The greatest density of the ravine network is in the right bank of the basin. Flowing through a deep valley. From the headwaters to the village of Nagornoye, the floodplain is mild or absent; below the floodplain bilateral, with a width of 0.2 to 1 km, covered with meadow vegetation. The channel width is 6-20 m.

Food mixed, the share of snow is more than half. Underground power module 0.1-5 l / s km². The average perennial layer of annual runoff in the pool is 121 mm, the flood runoff layer is 65 mm. Spring flood usually begins in late March - early April. It freezes in early November in the upper reaches and at the end of November in the lower reaches. Average long-term low-flow rate at the mouth of 2.6 m³ / s.

The water is moderately hard (3-6 mg-eq / l) in spring and very hard (9-12 mg-eq / l) in winter and summer. The total mineralization is 200–400 mg / l in spring and 500–700 mg / l in winter and summer ^[5] .

Major tributaries

(km from the mouth, length is indicated in brackets in km)

The name of the river comes from the Tatar word kichu - ford, crossing.

According to the state water register of Russia, it belongs to the Lower Volga basin district , the water management section of the river is Sheshma from source to mouth. The river basin is the Volga from the headwater of the Kuibyshev reservoir to its inflow into the Caspian Sea ^[2] .

The water object code is 11010000212112100003785.