| Uy | |
|---|---|
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 The Uy in the Tobol watershed | |
| Location | |
| Country | Russia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | Tobol |
• coordinates | 54°17′54″N63°58′45″E / 54.2983°N 63.9792°E /54.2983; 63.9792 |
| Length | 462 km (287 mi) |
| Basin size | 58,900 km2 (22,700 sq mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Tobol→Irtysh→Ob→Kara Sea |
TheUy (Russian:Уй,Bashkir:Уй) is ariver inChelyabinsk Oblast inRussia with its upper reaches inBashkortostan. It partially flows along theborders of Chelyabinsk andKurgan Oblasts withKazakhstan. The Uy is a left tributary of theTobol.[1] The length of the river is 462 km. The area of its basin is 34,400 km2.[2] It freezes up in November and stays icebound in April. The town ofTroitsk and threereservoirs (the largest beingTroitsk Reservoir) are situated on the Uy.[1]
It rises in the southernUral Mountains east of the headwaters of theUral betweenChelyabinsk andMagnitogorsk and flows east with many meanders pastTroitsk to meet theTobol near Zverinogolovskoye (formerly the fort of Ust-Uysk). The gold-mining town ofPlast is on its headwaters. At the time of theBashkir War of 1735-40 it was the eastern end of the Orenburg Line of forts and is now approximately part of the border between Russia and Kazakhstan. The Uy is the southernmost river on the east side of the Urals whose waters ultimately reach the Arctic Ocean. South of the Uy waters run to the river Ural which flows south into the Caspian Sea.
The name of the river comes from theBashkir language, in which it means "valley, lowland".
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