Samara (Volga)
River in Russia
53°10′01″N 50°03′43″E / 53.16694°N 50.06194°E / 53.16694; 50.06194
The Samara (Russian: Сама́ра, IPA: [sɐˈmarə]) is a river in Russia and a left-bank tributary of the Volga. It flows into the larger river at the city of Samara.[1] Its largest tributary is the Bolshoy Kinel.[2] It is 594 kilometres (369 mi) long, and its drainage basin covers 46,500 square kilometres (18,000 sq mi).[3]
Honours
The asteroid 26922 Samara was named in honour of the river and city on 1 June 2007.[4]
Samarabatrachus, a temnospondyl from the Lower Triassic (Induan) deposits of Borsky District, Samara Oblast, was named after this river in 2016. This animal is known by a skull of 15.3 cm in length.[5]
References
- ^ Simon Richmond (2009). "Ulyanovsk and Samara". Russia (Ebook ed.). Lonely Planet. p. 447. ISBN 9781742203737.
- ^ Самара (река в Оренбургской и Куйбышевской обл.), Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- ^ «Река Бездна», Russian State Water Registry.
- ^ JPL
- ^ Novikov I.V. (2016). "New Tempospondyl Amphibians from the Basal Triassic of the Obshchii Syrt Highland, Eastern Europe" (PDF). Paleontological Journal (in Russian). 3: 88-100. doi:10.7868/S0031031X16030065. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-01-22.
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