River
Northern Dvina
744 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Dvina Bay
In numbers
Length
744km
Average flow
3,500m³/s
Basin
357,000km²
Drop
271m
from 42 m to -229 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
744 km of river and 50 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSukhonaat 42 m
- 1 kmSukhonatributary
- 1 kmYugtributary
- 3 kmVelikiy Ustyug32,642 people
- 11 kmShomkosatributary
- 13 kmStrigatributary
- 28 kmLapinkatributary
- 43 kmUkhtomkatributary
- 49 kmYaratributary
- 62 kmUdimatributary
- 75 kmMalaya Severnaya Dvinatributary
- 75 kmVychegdatributary
- 92 kmVongodatributary
- 114 kmUftyugatributary
- 118 kmYevdatributary
- 174 kmLazarevsky Island
- 175 kmTyadematributary
- 196 kmAvnyugatributary
- 229 kmVerkhnyaya Toymatributary
- 229 kmKyntyshtributary
- 229 kmPalengatributary
- 235 kmSoygatributary
- 246 kmNozatributary
- 275 kmNizhnyaya Toymatributary
- 293 kmKodimatributary
- 298 kmTyodatributary
- 319 kmNyumatributary
- 319 kmTulgastributary
- 323 kmTopsatributary
- 368 kmLudegatributary
- 371 kmVagatributary
- 396 kmPyandatributary
- 396 kmVaengatributary
- 406 kmMalaya Shengatributary
- 434 kmMorzhevkatributary
- 454 kmBolshaya Kiroksatributary
- 480 kmYemetsk12,000 people
- 496 kmPingishatributary
- 496 kmPukshengatributary
- 496 kmPyazhmatributary
- 499 kmEmtsatributary
- 506 kmChelmokhtatributary
- 519 kmSiyatributary
- 546 kmObokshatributary
- 589 kmPinegatributary
- 604 kmBolshaya Yuratributary
- 619 kmVozhdoromkatributary
- 638 kmLyndogatributary
- 645 kmKekhtatributary
- 650 kmKorelytributary
- 681 kmArkhangel’sk349,742 people
- 744 kmDvina Bayat -229 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Arkhangelsk and Vologda Oblasts, Russia
At the mouth it carries 3,490 m³/s on average: 1.4 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 42 m to -229 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 357,000 km², about the size of DE. 1.7 million people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from May to July; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Arkhangel’skLargest city on its banks · 349,742 people
- Talagi Airport (ARH)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 10 km from the city
- On the water70 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Northern Dvina, month by month
Highest water: from May to July
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 1,000 m³/s in the lowest month to 9,800 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Northern Dvina: the basin in numbers
346,666 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 5/km²people per km²
- 136maverage altitude of the basin
- 599mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 0.8°Caverage air temperature
- 5%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 88% Forest
- 2% Cropland
- 2% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Northern Dvina: what you find on the way
- 1Boat ramps
- 59Ferry piers
- 8Marinas
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.7 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Northern Dvina in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (86)
Russia1,130 km1,200 m³/sjoins at km 70PinegaRussia779 km430 m³/sjoins at km 554VagaRussia575 km380 m³/sjoins at km 349YugRussia574 km290 m³/sjoins at km 1SukhonaRussia558 km460 m³/sjoins at km 1Also: Emtsa, Uftyuga, Vaenga, Nizhnyaya Toyma, Vongoda, Tulgas, Pukshenga, Shomkosa, Yorga, Avnyuga, Bolshaya Shenga, Bolshaya Yura, Vozhdoromka, Kodima, Lapinka, Ludega, Lyabla, Morzhevka, Nyuma, Oboksha, Pingisha, Seftra, Smerdye, Smerdya
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q8187) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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