Sura
The 332nd longest river in the world
The Sura (́, Chuvash: ă, Săr) is a river in Russia, a north-flowing right tributary of the Volga. Its mouth on the Volga is about halfway between Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan. It flows through Penza Oblast, Mordovia, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Chuvashia and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. It is 841 kilometres (523 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 67,500 square kilometres (26, 100 sq mi). It is navigable for 394 km from the mouth. The city of Penza, and smaller towns Alatyr, Shumerlya, Yadrin lie along the Sura. At the confluence with the Volga lies the settlement of Vasilsursk. The principal tributaries of the Sura are the Penza, the Pyana, and the Alatyr.
Flows through: Russia.
River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.