Moksha (river)

Moksha
Course of the Moksha
Location
Country	Russia
Region	Penza Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Republic of Mordovia, Ryazan Oblast
Cities	Temnikov, Krasnoslobodsk, Kovylkino
Physical characteristics
Source	Vydygadovka
• location	Privolzhskaya Upland, Mokshansky District, Penza Oblast
• coordinates	53°19′13″N 44°31′13″E / 53.3202°N 44.5203°E / 53.3202; 44.5203
Mouth	Oka
• location	Pitelinsky District, Ryazan Oblast
• coordinates	54°44′35″N 41°52′42″E / 54.74306°N 41.87833°E / 54.74306; 41.87833
• elevation	79 m (259 ft)
Length	656 km (408 mi)
Basin size	51,000 km2 (20,000 sq mi)
Discharge
• location	72 km from the mouth
• average	95 m3/s (3,400 cu ft/s)
Basin features
Progression	Oka→ Volga→ Caspian Sea
Tributaries
• left	Vad, Tsna
• right	Sivin, Satis

Moksha (Russian: Мо́кша, Moksha: Йов) is a river in central Russia, a right tributary of the Oka. It flows through Penza Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Ryazan Oblast and the Republic of Mordovia, and joins the Oka near Pyatnitsky Yar, near the city of Kasimov.

It is 656 kilometres (408 mi) in length, and has a drainage basin of 51,000 square kilometres (20,000 sq mi).^[1]

In the 1950s, several hydroelectric power stations were built in the middle course of the river, but without navigable locks. In 1955, 2 km below the mouth of the river. Prices on the Moksha River built Rasypukhinsky hydro-power plant with a hydroelectric power station and a wooden shipping lock. Navigation on the river was carried out until the mid-1990s.

On the Moksha is the Trinity-Scans monastery, the Nativity-Theotokos Sanaksar Monastery and the Krasnoslobodsky Savior-Transfiguration Monastery.