Severnaya Sosva Северная Сосьва | |
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Mouth location in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia | |
Native name | |
Location | |
Country | Russia |
Region | Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug |
City | Berezovo |
Physical characteristics | |
Mouth | Malaya Ob |
• coordinates | 64°11′23″N 65°25′55″E / 64.18972°N 65.43194°E |
Length | 754 km (469 mi) |
Basin size | 98,300 km2 (38,000 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• average | 860 m3/s (30,000 cu ft/s) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Malaya Ob→ Ob→ Kara Sea |
Tributaries | |
• left | Lyapin, Vogulka |
• right | Malaya Sosva, Tapsuy |
The Severnaya Sosva (Russian: Северная Сосьва, "Northern Sosva”; Northern Mansi: Со̄с-я̄, Та̄гт; Sōs-jā, Tāgt) is a river in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, which drains the northern Ural Mountains into the lower Ob. It discharges into the Malaya Ob, a branch of the Ob.[3]