River
Oskil
472 km from source to mouth · Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine and RussiaFlows into Donets9th longest in Ukraine
In numbers
Length
472km
Average flow
44m³/s
Basin
14,800km²
Drop
104m
from 166 m to 62 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
472 km of river and 26 stops on the way: 12 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmTimsky Districtat 166 m
- 56 kmStarooskol Reservoir20 km²
- 69 kmStaryy Oskol226,977 people
- 71 kmOskoletstributary
- 86 kmKotyoltributary
- 86 kmUblyatributary
- 112 kmOrliktributary
- 124 kmKhalan'tributary
- 126 kmChernyanka15,261 people
- 135 kmGryaznovkatributary
- 139 kmKholoktributary
- 155 kmNovy Oskol21,035 people
- 158 kmBelenkayatributary
- 209 kmVolokonovka12,413 people
- 218 kmPyatnitskoye4,855 people
- 265 kmValuyki35,887 people
- 265 kmValuytributary
- 271 kmUraevatributary
- 280 kmKozinkatributary
- 281 kmUrazovo6,966 people
- 283 kmUrazovatributary
- 329 kmDvorichna3,290 people
- 350 kmKupyansk27,169 people
- 357 kmKupyansk-Vuzlovyi8,212 people
- 362 kmKivsharivka19,738 people
- 446 kmOskil Reservoir86 km²
- 450 kmOskil3,217 people
- 472 kmDonetsat 62 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Russia and Ukraine
At the mouth it carries 44 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 57 seconds. It drops from 166 m to 62 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 14,800 km², about the size of TL. 613,000 people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from December to March. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (29% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Staryy OskolLargest city on its banks · 226,977 people
- Voronezh International Airport (VOZ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 111 km from the cityCar hire in KharkivDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water7 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Oskil, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from January to February. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 13 m³/s in the lowest month to 220 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
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The basin
Oskil: the basin in numbers
14,818 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 613,000people live in the basin
- 42/km²people per km²
- 166maverage altitude of the basin
- 545mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 6.8°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 1.1%covered by lakes
- 0.5km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 5% Forest
- 58% Cropland
- 20% Pasture
- 3% Towns and cities
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
Oskil: what you find on the way
- 2Weirs
- 1WaterfallsWaterfall
- 1Rapids
- 7Marinas
- 17River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Oskil in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Starooskol Reservoirkm 4520km²
- Oskil Reservoirkm 354 · 19 m deep86km²
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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
Oskil in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
DonetsRussia1,053 km160 m³/sTributaries (24)
Also: Urazova, Kozinka, Valuy, Gerasim, Belenkaya, Kotyol, Uraeva, Kholok, Stuzhenyok, Gryaznovka, Oskolets, Ublya, Chufichka, Khalan', Kamyshenka, Dorozhnaya, Okunevsky Yar, Yar Borovkov, Rogozets, Golovische, Orlik, Kotla, Ol'shanka, Bakhtyn
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Ukraine264 km15 m³/s138 km awayVovchaUkraine336 km5.3 m³/s138 km awayLuhanUkraine198 km14 m³/s159 km awaySamara RiverUkraine320 km17 m³/s184 km awayDonRussia1,870 km940 m³/s259 km awayOril RiverUkraine346 km13 m³/s197 km awayKalmiusUkraine209 km8.2 m³/s223 km awayVorsklaUkraine464 km36 m³/s246 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q540067) · 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 |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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