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is 17,600 km (6,800 sq mi). It has a vertical drop of 155 m (509 ft) (long-term average). The maximum depth is 3 metres (9.8 ft) above Moscow city limits, and up to 6 metres (20 ft) below it. Normally, it freezes in November–December and begins to thaw around late
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to 250 m/s (8,800 cu ft/s) at the Oka inlet. The speed of the current, depending on the season, varies from 0.1 m/s (0.33 ft/s) (winter, dams closed) to 1.5–2.0 m/s (4.9–6.6 ft/s) (May, dams open).
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March. During an unusually warm winter in 2006–2007, ice began melting on January 25. The portion of the river running through Moscow only freezes occasionally on account of contamination.
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in the 1780s, and has no official name in Russian. Moscow residents informally call it "Bolotny Ostrov" (Bog Island) while members of Moscow's English-speaking community refer to it as
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water. This has enabled reliable commercial shipping, which was previously interrupted by summer droughts (older dams built in 1785, 1836 and 1878 were not effective). The average
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walls. Drinking water for the city of Moscow is collected from five stations on the Moskva River and from the Upper Volga reservoirs (north and north-west of the city).
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city limits, have created a number of islands. Some of them have names in Russian, some have none. Major, permanent islands (west to east) are:
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The name of the city is thought to be derived from the name of the river. Several theories of the origin of the name have been proposed.
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The absolute water level in downtown Moscow is 120 metres (390 ft) above sea level (long-term average of summer lows after
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One of the most famous is an unnamed artificial island in the center of the city between the river proper and the Bypass Canal
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According to recent studies, the current riverbed of the Moscow River was occupied about 12 thousand years ago
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people, who were among the several pre-Slavic tribes which originally inhabited the area, called the river
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origins), having little or no scientific ground, are now largely rejected by contemporary linguists.
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Map of the Volga watershed with the Moskva highlighted; the two rivers are directly connected by the
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Sources of water are estimated as 61% thaw, 12% rain and 27% subterranean. Since completion of the
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The river is 473 km (294 mi) long (or 502 km (312 mi)), and the area of its
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The most linguistically well-grounded and widely accepted is from the Proto-Balto-Slavic root *
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In addition to Finnic tribes, the Moskva River is also the origin of Slavic tribes such as the
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across the Moskva River and its canals within Moscow city limits; the first stone bridge,
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Chubarʹi︠a︡n, A. O. (Aleksandr Oganovich) Danilevskiĭ, I. N. (Igorʹ Nikolaevich) (2009).
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There is a fleet of river ice-breaker cruisers which ply routes from moorings at the
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Russian: Носарев В.А., Скрябина, Т.А., "Мосты Москвы", М, "Вече", 2004, стр.194 (
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of Russia, is situated on its banks. The river also flows through the towns of
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To distinguish the river and the city, Russians usually call the river
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The main tributaries of the Moskva are, from source to mouth:
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All numerical data: Russian: Энциклопедия "Москва", M, 1997 (
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and back. Duration of trips ranges from 1.5 to 3 hours.
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Moscow Canal
Russian
Russia
Podmoskovye
Moskva
55°30′50″N 35°21′50″E / 55.514°N 35.364°E / 55.514; 35.364
Mouth
Oka
Kolomna
55°04′31″N 38°50′43″E / 55.0753°N 38.8453°E / 55.0753; 38.8453
Oka
Volga
Caspian Sea
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western Russia
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