River
Tura
1,030 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Tobol
In numbers
Length
1,030km
Average flow
200m³/s
Basin
80,400km²
Drop
208m
from 250 m to 42 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,030 km of river and 42 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmUral Mountainsat 250 m
- 28 kmVerkhnyaya Tura10,608 people
- 28 kmUpper Tura Reservoir4.0 km²
- 61 kmMalaya Imennayatributary
- 74 kmNizhnyaya Tura22,600 people
- 74 kmNizhne Turinskiy Prud11 km²
- 75 kmLesnoy23,834 people
- 75 kmBolshaya Imennayatributary
- 91 kmVyyatributary
- 100 kmIstributary
- 107 kmNalimtributary
- 179 kmAktaytributary
- 185 kmUpper Tursk Reservoir2.7 km²
- 189 kmVerkhoturye6,455 people
- 189 kmVerkhotur’ye8,500 people
- 233 kmSaldatributary
- 253 kmPuregovkatributary
- 253 kmMorozovkatributary
- 305 kmDuanovkatributary
- 321 kmOzero Sangar0.4 km²
- 334 kmTsygankatributary
- 354 kmTagiltributary
- 371 kmSankinatributary
- 392 kmKonovalovkatributary
- 415 kmTuruzbayevkatributary
- 451 kmSusatkatributary
- 456 kmBagyshëvkatributary
- 486 kmKokuzovkatributary
- 491 kmTaborinkatributary
- 492 kmTurinsk18,555 people
- 513 kmShaytankatributary
- 571 kmSaragulkatributary
- 636 kmNitsatributary
- 666 kmTegentributary
- 666 kmLipkatributary
- 681 kmOzero Krivoye (lanaw nga porma ug arko sa Rusya, Tyumenskaya Oblast', lat 57,36, long 64,97)0.6 km²
- 689 kmAkhmankatributary
- 755 kmMost vlyublennyh
- 755 kmTyumen768,358 people
- 804 kmKaplankatributary
- 848 kmAygatributary
- 861 kmPyshmatributary
- 932 kmBobrovkatributary
- 1,030 kmTobolat 42 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts, Russia
At the mouth it carries 203 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 12 seconds. It drops from 250 m to 42 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 80,400 km², about the size of CZ. 2.2 million people live in it. Highest water: from April to June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- TyumenLargest city on its banks · 768,358 people
- Roshchino International Airport (TJM)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 12 km from the city
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Tura, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 130 m³/s in the lowest month to 880 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
Tura: the basin in numbers
79,135 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.2millionpeople live in the basin
- 29/km²people per km²
- 151maverage altitude of the basin
- 505mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 1.4°Caverage air temperature
- 9%protected areas
- 0.9%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 75% Forest
- 12% Cropland
- 7% Pasture
- 2% 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
Tura: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 5Locks
- 2Waterfalls
- 3Boat ramps
- 1Marinas
- 1River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tura 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.
5lakes on its wayLakeyas
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (5)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Upper Tura Reservoirkm 224.0km²
- Nizhne Turinskiy Prudkm 6011km²
- Upper Tursk Reservoirkm 1492.7km²
- Ozero Sangarkm 2590.4km²
- Ozero Krivoye (lanaw nga porma ug arko sa Rusya, Tyumenskaya Oblast', lat 57,36, long 64,97)km 5500.6km²
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Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Gora Kyrma14 km away
- Gora Arbatskiy Kamen'11 km away
- Gora Podpora5.1 km away
- Gora Kvartsevaya14 km away
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
Tura in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
TobolRussia1,591 km800 m³/sTributaries (51)
Also: Tagil, Pyshma, Nitsa, Salda, Bagyshëvka, Tegen, Sankina, Taborinka, Saragulka, Akhmanka, Is, Lipka, Yalynka, Susatka, Turuzbayevka, Vyya, Kokuzovka, Pikhtovka, Tsyganka, Kanyrka, Bolshaya Imennaya, Pogorelka, Puregovka, Mezhnitsa
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q588242) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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