Bolshoy Cheremshan River
Location
Country	Tatarstan and Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Bugulma-Belebey Hills
Mouth	Kuybyshev Reservoir, Volga
• coordinates	54°10′10″N 49°32′44″E / 54.16944°N 49.54556°E / 54.16944; 49.54556
• elevation	53 m (174 ft)
Length	336 km (209 mi)
Basin size	11,500 km2 (4,400 sq mi)
Discharge
• average	1,660 m3/s (59,000 cu ft/s) (maximal)
Basin features
Progression	Volga→ Caspian Sea

Bolshoy Cheremshan (Russian: Большой Черемшан, literally Greater Cheremshan, Tatar: Олы Чирмешән) is a river in Russia, a left tributary of the Volga between the Kama and Samara. It is 336 kilometres (209 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 11,500 square kilometres (4,400 sq mi).^[1] It flows southwest to the Volga near Dimitrovgrad. The main inflows are the Bolshaya Sulcha and Maly Cheremshan. The maximal discharge is 1,660 cubic metres per second (59,000 cu ft/s) (1979), and the minimal mineralization is 600-800 mg/l. The riverbed is meandering and the meadows are wide. From around 1650 the Trans-Kama Line of forts ran along or near the Cheremshan.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

• "Олы Чирмешән". Tatar Encyclopaedia (in Tatar). Kazan: The Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002.