River
Yug
574 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Northern Dvina
In numbers
Length
574km
Average flow
290m³/s
Basin
35,600km²
Drop
188m
from 185 m to -3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
574 km of river and 26 stops on the way: 5 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmNikolskat 185 m
- 24 kmKholovitsatributary
- 115 kmKudangatributary
- 148 kmNikol’sk8,487 people
- 212 kmSharzhengatributary
- 212 kmKipshengatributary
- 231 kmChiryadkatributary
- 274 kmPichugtributary
- 278 kmShongatributary
- 287 kmKichmengskiy Gorodok6,623 people
- 288 kmKichmengatributary
- 293 kmPyzhugtributary
- 301 kmMalinovetskaya Kurdengatributary
- 305 kmKoskovaya Kurdengatributary
- 317 kmDorozhkovkatributary
- 368 kmEnangatributary
- 372 kmYontalatributary
- 405 kmShengatributary
- 440 kmPushmatributary
- 440 kmPelegovatributary
- 440 kmPodosinovets4,106 people
- 451 kmDem’yanovo6,148 people
- 454 kmShormatributary
- 509 kmKuromshatributary
- 531 kmLuzatributary
- 567 kmShardengatributary
- 568 kmVelikiy Ustyug32,642 people
- 574 kmNorthern Dvinaat -3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Vologda and Kirov Oblasts, Russia, tributary to the Northern Dvina
At the mouth it carries 290 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 8.6 seconds. It drops from 185 m to -3 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 35,600 km², about the size of TW. 108,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: 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
- Velikiy UstyugLargest city on its banks · 32,642 people
- Velikiy Ustyug Airport (VUS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 4 km from the city
- On the water10 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Yug, 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. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 110 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,600 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
Yug: the basin in numbers
36,204 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 108,000people live in the basin
- 3/km²people per km²
- 160maverage altitude of the basin
- 614mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 1.4°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 92% Forest
- 3% 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
Yug: what you find on the way
- 8Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Northern DvinaRussia744 km3,500 m³/sTributaries (54)
Also: Luza, Pushma, Kichmenga, Sharzhenga, Yontala, Shardenga, Slobodka, Shonga, Enanga, Kipshenga, Ichma, Pichug, Pyzhug, Shorma, Tikhla, Selifantovitsa, Padanga, Pelegova, Shenga, Dorozhkovka, Sholga, Emkuch, Kachug, Koskovaya Kurdenga
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q845960) · 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 |
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