Bezdna River, Tatarstan

Not to be confused with Bezdna River, Chuvashia.

Bezdna, Biznä River
Basin
River mouth	Kuralovo, Spassky District 53 m (174 ft)
Watershed area	806 km² (311 sq mi)
Countries	Tatarstan, Russia
Physiognomy
Length	45 km (28 mi)
Discharge	Average rate: 197 m³/s (7,000 cu ft/s)

The Bezdna (Russian: Бездна) or Biznä (Tatar: Cyrillic Бизнә, Latin Biznä) is a river in Tatarstan, Russian Federation, a left-bank tributary of the Volga River, flowing into the Kuybyshev Reservoir near Kuralovo, Spassky District. It is 45 kilometres (28 mi) long, and its drainage basin covers 806 square kilometres (311 sq mi).

The maximal mineralization is 300–500 mg/l. The average sediment deposition at the river mouth is 129 millimetres (5.1 in) per year. In 1963 the average discharge was 197 cubic metres per second (7,000 cu ft/s).^[1] The town of Spassk, the ancestor of modern Bolgar stood on the river prior to 1956. In 1956–57 the Kuybyshev reservoir was created, flooding the town and the lower stream of Bezdna.

Volga River

Tributaries	Selizharovka Vazuza Tvertsa Shosha Dubna Medveditsa Nerl Kashinka Sit Mologa Suda Sheksna Sogozha Kotorosl Kostroma Nyomda Unzha Uzola Oka Kudma Kerzhenets Sura Vetluga Rutka Tsivil Great Kokshaga Little Kokshaga Anish Ilet Sviyaga Sumka Kazanka Kama Aktay Bezdna Cheremshan Sok Samara Chapayevka Little Irgiz Irgiz Tereshka Yeruslan Akhtuba (distributary)

Reservoirs	Lake Volgo Ivankovo Uglich Rybinsk Gorky Cheboksary Kuybyshev Saratov Volgograd

Hydroelectric stations	Ivankovo Uglich Rybinsk Nizhny Novgorod Cheboksary Zhiguli Saratov Volga

Canals	Moscow Canal Volga–Baltic Waterway Volga–Don Canal

Cities	Astrakhan Volgograd Saratov Samara Kazan Ulyanovsk Nizhny Novgorod Yaroslavl Tver

References

↑ (Tatar) "Бизнә". Tatar Encyclopaedia. Kazan: The Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002.

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