Arya ( Chuvash. Ara ) - a river in Chuvashia and Tatarstan , flows into the Sviyazhsky Bay of the Kuibyshev Reservoir at an altitude of 53 meters above sea level [2] . The river is 49 km [3] , of which 23.7 km are within Chuvashia, and the rest is in Tatarstan. The river basin area is 368 km² [3] .
| Arya | |
|---|---|
| Chuvash. Ara , tat. Әрә | |
| Characteristic | |
| Length | 49 km |
| Pool | 368 km² |
| Watercourse | |
| Source | |
| • Location | west of s. Arabosi |
| • Height | 158 m |
| • Coordinates | |
| Mouth | Sviyaga |
| • Location | 24 km along the Sviyazhsky gulf of the Kuibyshevsky airdrome. |
| • Height | 53 m |
| • Coordinates | |
| River slope | 2.15 m / km |
| Location | |
| Water system | Sviyaga → Kuibyshev reservoir → Volga → Caspian Sea |
| A country |
|
| Regions | Chuvashia , Tatarstan |
| Areas | Urmarsky district , Zelenodolsky district |
| HWR code | |
Content
Physico-geographical characteristics
It originates in ponds west of the village of Arabosi [4] on the border of Urmarsky and Kanashsky districts. The slope of the river is 9.2 ‰. Water consumption in a low - water period is about 1 m³ / s.
Mixed food, mainly snow. Abundant spring flood [5] . Sometimes it dries up [6] .
It flows along a hilly plain; in the lower reaches of the floodplain, it is swampy. The slopes of the valley are strongly dissected by ravines and gullies. 11% of the catchment area is forested. It has 25 tributaries with a length of 0.6 to 8.7 km.
The water is moderately hard (3-6 mEq / l) throughout the year. The total mineralization is 200-300 mg / l in spring and 400-500 mg / l in winter and summer. In the river basin there are 2 ponds with a total volume of 761 thousand m³.
Water registry data
According to the state water register of Russia, it belongs to the Verkhnevolzhsky Basin District , the water sector of the river is the Volga from the Cheboksarsky city ( Cheboksary Reservoir ) to Kazan without a river. Sviyaga and Tsivil , the river sub-basin of the river is the Volga from the confluence of the Oka to the Kuibyshev reservoir (without the Sura basin). The river basin of the river is the (Upper) Volga up to the Kuibyshevsky water basin (without the Oka basin) [3] .
Title
The local historian I. S. Dubanov gives such versions of the origin of the toponym Arya (Ara):
- Ara “the gap, the distance, the space between two points” ( Turk. , Turkish. , Azerb. , Kyrgyz. , Tatars. ) ( E. V. Sevortyan ) [7] . Aral “island” ( Turk. , Mong. ); “Thickets of shrubs , urema along the banks of rivers and lakes” ( alt. ) ( E. M. Murzaev , CIST, 1984) [8] .
- In Hungarian, the local geographic term ep is “stream”. It corresponds to the semantics of the formant term er / ar руч brook ’.
- Dubanov I.S. [9]
Tributaries
On the territory of Chuvashia has 17 tributaries of the first and 7 tributaries of the second order [5] .
Tributaries (km from the mouth) :
- 3.3 km: Bulatka river [2] (ave., Length 8.5 [5] km)
- Kirmeli River [10] (BG, length 5.6 [5] km)
- Uksha River [11] (approx. length 9.1 [5] km)
- 28 km: Musirma river [12] (ave., Length 8.7 [5] km) [6]
- Ar river [13] (lv)
Ecology
The river is characterized by a high population density in the catchment area and pollution from coastal territories [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Surface Water Resources of the USSR: Hydrological Understanding. T. 12. Lower Volga and Western Kazakhstan. Vol. 1. Lower Volga / ed. O. M. Zubchenko. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat, 1966 .-- 287 p.
- ↑ 1 2 Map sheet N-39-13-Bb - FSUE GOSGISCENTER
- ↑ 1 2 3 State Water Register . Arya (Ara) . textual.ru . Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia (March 29, 2009). Date of treatment December 20, 2018. Archived March 29, 2009.
- ↑ Map sheet N-38-24-BA - FSUE GOSGISCENTER
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ilivanova I.V. Arya // Electronic Chuvash Encyclopedia
- ↑ 1 2 Zelenodolsky district. Geography and ecology (Inaccessible link) . Archived December 18, 2009.
- ↑ Sevortyan E.V. Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages: General Turkic and Inter-Turkic Vowels / AN SSSR. Institute of Linguistics. - M .: Nauka, 1974.- 768 p.
- ↑ Murzaev E.M. Dictionary of popular geographic terms. - M.: Thought, 1984.
- ↑ Dubanov I.S. Geographical names of the Chuvash Republic: local history dictionary. - Ed. 2nd, add. / I. S. Dubanov. - Cheboksary: Chuvash. Prince Publishing House, 2013 .-- 526 p. - ISBN 978-5-76702046-1
- ↑ Map sheet N-39-13-Ba - FSUE GOSGISCENTER
- ↑ Map sheet N-39-13-Ab - FSUE GOSGISCENTER
- ↑ Map sheet N-39-13-Aa - FSUE GOSGISCENTER
- ↑ Map sheet N-38-24-Bb - FSUE GOSGISCENTER