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Chusovaya River (Чусова́я) is a river in Perm Krai, Sverdlovsk Oblast and Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia, a tributary of the Kama River. Its length is 592 km, and the area of the basin is 23,000 km². It flows into the Chusovoy Cove of the Kamsky Reservoir. Floods usually take place from mid-April to mid-June. The Chusovaya River freezes up between late October to early December, and stays under the ice until mid-April–first weeks of May. Its principal tributaries are Mezhevaya Utka, Serebryanka, Koyva, Usva, Revda, and Lysva. An interesting tributary of Chusovaya is Kumysh, that flows some 6 km underground, the place where it disappears being called нырок in Russian ("dive" in English) by the local people, while the place where Kumysh surfaces again, is called вынырок ("coming to the surface"). The Chusovaya River is widely used for water supply: its water is moved from the Volchikhinsky Reservoir (37 km²) to the Verkhneisetsky Reservoir to supply Yekaterinburg. Its tributaries have fifteen small reservoirs. Primary ports on the river include Perm and Chusovoy.
The Chusovaya River is famous for its huge rocks along the shoreline. One of those rocks (small-sized one) is depicted on the photo to the right. Some rocks were very dangerous for boats during spring tide and were called Boytsy (бойцы, lit. fighters). Many of the larger rocks along the river are named.
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