To answer the question of which rivers belong to the Atlantic Ocean basin, you can list a huge number of rivers in Europe, Russia and North America. But since this is too long a list, we will only list the water flows that flow through our country.
The rivers of the Atlantic Ocean basin in Russia are also very numerous, there are more than 3 dozen of them. Most have a small amount of flow, and among the significant water arteries are the Kuban, Don and Neva. Further in the article we will tell you which rivers belong to the Atlantic Ocean basin from the largest in Russia, and give their detailed description.
The Mighty River Don
If you look at the map of Eurasia, you can easily answer the question which river belongs to the Atlantic Ocean basin, and at the same time is the largest among the others.
Don originates in the Tula region, on the territory of the northern part of the vastCentral Russian Upland. For a long time, the question of the source of this mighty river remained open. Some geographers believed that the river originates in Lake Ivan, others - in the Novomoskovsk reservoir. Currently, researchers have come to the conclusion that the source of the Don is the Urvanka River, which flows near Novomoskovsk.
The river crosses the territory of twelve Russian regions (Kursk, Belgorod, Orel, Tula, Ryazan, Tambov, Penza, Saratov, Volgograd, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Rostov regions) as well as three Ukrainian (Kharkov, Donetsk, Luhansk regions).
General characteristics
The river is about 1,870 km long and its basin area is 420,000 km². The Don crosses the steppe and forest-steppe zones, and the nature of its flow almost throughout its entire length is slow and unhurried, strongly winding.
About 5200 small rivers flow into this water artery, as well as a huge number of streams. Among the main tributaries are such rivers of the Atlantic Ocean basin as the Seversky Donets, Voronezh, Quiet and Fast Sosny, Manych, Aksai, Nepryadva, Medveditsa, Black Kalitva, Beautiful Mecha, Bityug, Chir, Ilovlya, Osered, Sal, etc.
Don flows into the Sea of Azov near the Taganrog Bay. The Sea of Azov, in turn, through the Black and Mediterranean Seas, through the straits, flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
The right bank of the Don, folded, in the bulk, stony and chalk deposits, steep and precipitous. The left bank, on the other hand, is flat and flat. Left side of the poolThe river has a large number of lakes, as well as wetlands. Forests are predominantly broad-leaved, coniferous or mixed. In the steppe zone - meadow grasses.
Sections of the river
Don is divided into three main sections - Upper, Middle and Lower. The upper part extends from the source to the mouth of the Silent Pine. In this place, the fastest current is observed, there are rifts and whirlpools. The depth of the river is small - up to 1.5 m, but there are also deeper places. In this part, three large right tributaries flow into the Don (Pine, Beautiful Mecha, Nepryadva) and one left (Voronezh).
The middle part of the Don continues up to the Tsimlyanskoye reservoir. Here the current is slower, the average depth is about 1.5 m. In the deepest places it reaches 15 m. In this zone, two large right tributaries (Chernaya Kalitva and Bogucharka) and four left ones (Bityug, Medveditsa, Khoper, Ilovlya) flow into it.). The eighty-kilometer Volga-Don Canal is also located here, connecting two large Russian rivers.
The lower part of the Don is the deepest. The depth of the whirlpools here reaches 17 m. After the city of Rostov-on-Don, the river delta begins. In this part, it is divided into many ducts. The largest of them are Seversky Donets (right side), as well as Sal, Manych (left side). Immediately, the Don flows into the Sea of Azov.
Water regime, ichthyofauna
The river is fed mainly by snow. The snow contribution is about seventy percent, the rest is represented by ground andrain food. The river is covered with ice from early December to March/early April. In the rest of the year, the Middle and Lower Don are navigable (the total length of the navigable part is about 1.6 thousand km).
The ichthyofauna of the Don is very abundant. Here, such species of fish as bream, rudd, carp, roach, crucian carp, bleak, pike perch, sabrefish, pike, burbot, perch, catfish, ide, etc. are found in significant numbers. even beluga. There is no industrial catching, and fishing is mainly carried out by the local population.
Kuban
The Kuban River is born at the confluence of two swift mountain streams - Uskulan and Ullukan. Its upper reaches are fed by Elbrus glaciers. The total length of the Kuban is about 0.87 thousand km, and it also flows into the Sea of Azov.
The riverbed changes its character from the upper reaches to the lower reaches. In the upper part of the Kuban - a typical mountain river, with all the attributes - rocky gorges, steep, sometimes sheer slopes, deep valleys, rifts and rapid flow.
After the city of Cherkessk, its character changes, the valley expands, and the current becomes more calm and measured. The slopes become more gentle. In the middle and lower parts of the Kuban channel is very winding. There are many old women in the river valley. The largest of them is Lake Staraya Kuban.
A hundred kilometers from the confluence with the Sea of Azov, the river divides, forming three main branches - the Protok,Cossack Erik and Petrushin Sleeve.
Water regime of Kuban
During the year, the river experiences 7-8 floods, the most abundant of which are spring and summer, and the summer flood is stronger than the spring one. This is due to the melting of seasonal snows and glaciers in the Caucasus.
The flow of the river is about 12-13 cubic kilometers of water per year, while, due to the large amount of suspended solids, the river discharges about 4 million tons of sediment into the Sea of Azov per year.
The ice cover of the river is unstable. On average, the river is covered with ice for one to three months a year, but in warm years it does not freeze.
No ice cover due to high current speed in the upper part of the river.
Food Kuban consists of rain, glacial and underground sources. Its river system consists of 14 thousand rivers, mostly left-bank tributaries. Of these, it is worth mentioning the largest, thus listing which rivers belong to the Atlantic Ocean basin in Russia, flowing into the Kuban: Big and Small Zelenchuk, Teberdya, Laba, Urup, Pshish, Belaya, Afips, Psekups (left bank), Mara, Dzheguta, Gorkaya (right bank).
Neva
If you look at the map of the European North of Russia, it is not difficult to determine which river belongs to the Atlantic Ocean basin and is the shortest. The Neva flows through the territory of two subjects of the Russian Federation - through the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. It flows out of Lake Ladoga and flows into the B alticsea (Gulf of Finland, Neva Bay).
With a relatively short length (only about 74 km), the catchment area of the river is 28 thousand square kilometers, since it is the only one flowing from Lake Ladoga. The total drop is 5.1 m.
The river basin is a complex hydrological network, with many lakes and reservoirs. In total, the catchment area of the Neva includes over 48 thousand rivers and more than 26 thousand lakes. At the same time, 26 tributaries flow directly into the river.
These are also rivers of the Atlantic Ocean basin, the largest of which on the left bank are the Staro- and New-Ladoga canals, Mga, Izhora, Tosna, Slavyanka, and on the right - the Chernaya and Okhta rivers. In the delta, it is divided into several channels connected by canals.
With a length of 74 km, the discharge of the Neva is 78.9 cubic kilometers per year, which makes it one of the ten largest rivers in Europe. The average width is 400-600m and the average depth is 8-11m.
Rivers of the Atlantic Ocean Basin (list)
And now let's list all the rivers included in the Atlantic Ocean basin:
- Don and tributaries: Seversky Donets, Voronezh, Silent and Fast Sosny, Manych, Aksai, Nepryadva, Bear, Black Kalitva, Beautiful Mecha, Bityug, Chir, Ilovlya, Osered, Sal.
- Kuban and tributaries: Big and Small Zelenchuk, Teberdya, Laba, Urup, Pshish, Belaya, Afips, Psekups (left bank), Mara, Dzheguta, Gorkaya (rightshore).
- Neva and tributaries: Old and New Ladoga canals, Mga, Izhora, Tosna, Slavyanka, and on the right Chernaya and Okhta.
Telling which rivers belong to the Atlantic Ocean basin, in general, it can be argued that all of them are fed mainly by snow. Their course is calm, and for the most part they are quite full-flowing. Although in our country they, by the way, are not the largest, as in Eurasia. The most full-flowing are the rivers of the Arctic Ocean.
Now, we hope it will not be difficult for you to answer the question which rivers belong to the Atlantic Ocean basin in Russia.
