Mishchich

The river originates at the north-eastern foot of Mount Nartan and flows down the northern slope of the ridge of the same name, which is a spur of the Forest Range . At the northern edge of the cottage settlement of Pheasant, the right tributary - Phatlyapsa flows into the river. South of the village, Nartan takes its largest left tributary - Ishiheu . Below, the right tributary, Kodakoy, flows into Mishikh and the river flows along a canalized channel to the northeast. In the lower reaches, the riverbed again becomes natural and east of the village of Nartan, flows into Nalchik .

Due to the construction of drainage channels at the northern foot of the Forest Range in the 1960s, the lower reaches of the river are now virtually shallow.

Along the river valley there are cottage settlements - Nalchik, Confectioner, Kommunalnik, Narthasa, Domstroitel and Pheasant. In its middle course, it forms the administrative border between the urban district of Nalchik and the Chereksky district , as well as between the Chereksky and Chegemsky districts.

According to the Russian State Water Register, it belongs to the West Caspian Basin District , the water sector of the river is the Terek from the confluence of the Urukh River to the confluence of the Malka River. The river basin - Rivers of the Caspian Sea basin between the Terek and Volga rivers ^[2] .

According to the geographic information system of water management zoning of the territory of the Russian Federation, prepared by the Federal Agency for Water Resources ^[2] :

• The code of the water body in the state water registry is 07020000612108200005107
• The code for hydrological knowledge (GI) is 108200510
• GI Volume Number - 08
• GI Issue - 2

• The article used information provided by the Federal Agency for Water Resources from the list of water bodies registered in the state water register as of March 29, 2009. List (rar-archive, 3.21 Mb).