River
Vuoksa
143 km from source to mouth · Russia and Finland.
Russia and FinlandFlows into Lake Ladoga
In numbers
Length
143km
Average flow
680m³/s
Basin
68,501km²
Drop
55m
from 61 m to 6 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
143 km of river and 20 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSaimaaat 61 m
- 0 kmSaimaa4,422 km²
- 1 kmpipeline bridge in Imatra
- 2 kmTorna Bridge
- 3 kmMansikkakoski Railway Bridge
- 3 kmMansikkakoski Old Bridge
- 4 kmMansikkakoski Bridge
- 4 kmImatra30,867 people
- 6 kmPower Plant Bridge
- 14 kmSvetogorsk Hydroelectric power plant
- 15 kmSvetogorsk15,733 people
- 20 kmLesogorsky hydroelectric power plant
- 23 kmLesogorskiy3,208 people
- 29 kmSosnovogorskoe0.4 km²
- 36 kmKamennogorskoe1.3 km²
- 38 kmKamennogorsk6,208 people
- 68 kmLugovoe0.8 km²
- 68 kmVodopad Pakkolan-Koski
- 103 kmVuoksa55 km²
- 104 kmVolchyatributary
- 135 kmSukhodolskoye Lake41 km²
- 143 kmLake Ladogaat 6 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Russia and Finland
At the mouth it carries 684 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 3.7 seconds. It drops from 61 m to 6 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 68,501 km², about the size of GE. 674,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from April to May; lowest: from December to March. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 53% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- ImatraLargest city on its banks · 30,867 people
- Lappeenranta Airport (LPP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 38 km from the cityCar hire at LPP airport (Lappeenranta)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water22 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Vuoksa, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to February. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 610 m³/s in the lowest month to 700 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
Vuoksa: the basin in numbers
72,828 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 674,000people live in the basin
- 11/km²people per km²
- 120maverage altitude of the basin
- 627mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 2.5°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 18.1%covered by lakes
- 11km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 75% Forest
- 6% Cropland
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
Vuoksa: what you find on the way
- 5Waterfalls
- 14Boat ramps
- 1Ferry piers
- 4Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Vuoksa 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.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
6lakes on its wayLakeyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Vodopad Pakkolan-Koskikm 75
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Lakes and reservoirs (6)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Saimaakm 0 · 82 m deep4,422km²
- Sosnovogorskoekm 320.4km²
- Kamennogorskoekm 401.3km²
- Lugovoekm 750.8km²
- Vuoksakm 11455km²
- Sukhodolskoye Lakekm 14841km²
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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
Vuoksa in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (5)
Also: Volchya, Dymovka, Storozhevaya, Vesyolaya, Unterniskanjoki
Nearby
Rivers nearby
EstoniaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q819448) · 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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