List of rivers of Russia

Russia can be divided into a European and an Asian part. The dividing line is generally considered to be the Ural Mountains. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea. The Asian part is drained into the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are

In Asia, important rivers are the

In the list below, the rivers are grouped by the seas or oceans into which they flow. Rivers that flow into other rivers are ordered by the proximity of their point of

There is an alphabetical list of rivers at the end of this article.

Barents Sea and White Sea (Arctic Ocean)

The rivers in this section are sorted east to west.

• Pechora (north-east of Naryan-Mar
  )
  • Usa (west of Usinsk
    )
    • Kolva
      (near Usinsk)
    • Bolshaya Synya
• Northern Dvina (in Severodvinsk)
  • Pinega (in Ust-Pinega
    )
  • Yomtsa (near Bolshaya Gora (ru
    ))
  • Vaga (near Bereznik
    )
  • Uftyuga (near Krasnoborsk
    )
  • Vychegda (in Kotlas
    )
    • Vishera
  • Veliki Ustyug
    )
  • Veliki Ustyug
    )
    • Vologda (near Vologda
      )
• Mezen (near Mezen
  )
• Nautsiyoki
• Onega (in Onega
  )
• Kem (in Kem
  )
• Niva (in Kandalaksha
  )
• Malaya Belaya (on the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast
  )
• Varzuga (in Kuzomen
  )
• Ponoy (in Ponoy
  )
• Iokanga
  )
• Voronya

Baltic Sea

The rivers in this section are sorted south-west to north-east.

• Pregolya (near Kaliningrad)
  • Alle/Lava (in Znamensk
    )
  • Instruch/Inster (in Chernyakhovsk)
  • Angrapa (in Chernyakhovsk
    )
    • Pissa (near Chernyakhovsk
      )
    • Krasnaya River (in Gusev
      )
• Nemunas/Neman (near Šilutė, Lithuania
  )
  • Neman
    )
• Daugava/Western Dvina (near Riga, Latvia
  )
  • Polatsk, Belarus
    )
  • Surazh
    , Belarus)
  • Mezha (near Velizh
    )
    • Obsha (near Bely
      )
• Narva (near Narva
  )
  • Plyussa (near Slantsy
    )
  • Lake Peipus (near Slantsy)
    • Velikaya (near Pskov
      )
      • Kukhva River (near Ostrov
        )
• Luga (in Ust-Luga
  )
  • Oredezh (near Luga
    )
• Neva (in Saint Petersburg)
  • Okhta
    (in Saint Petersburg)
    • Okkervil
      (in Saint Petersburg)
  • Izhora (in Ust-Izhora
    )
  • Tosna (in Otradnoye
    )
  • Mga (near Mga
    )
  • Lake Ladoga (in Shlisselburg)
    • Volkhov (near Volkhov
      )
      • Tigoda (near Kirishi)
        • Ravan
        • Chagoda
      • Velikiy Novgorod
        )
      • Lake Ilmen (in Velikiy Novgorod)
        • Msta (near Velikiy Novgorod)
          • Peretna (in Toporok
            )
          • Uver (near Berezovsky Ryadok
            )
          • Berezayka
            (in Berezovsky Ryadok)
            • Valdayka
          • Lake Mstino (near Vyshny Volochyok)
            • Tsna
              (near Vyshny Volochyok)
        • Pola (near Staraya Russa
          )
        • Lovat
          (near Staraya Russa)
          • Polist
            (near Staraya Russa)
          • Kunya (in Kholm
            )
        • Shelon (near Shimsk
          )
    • Syas (in Syasstroy
      )
    • Svir (near Lodeynoye Pole
      )
      • Pasha
        (near Lodeynoye Pole)
      • Oyat
        (near Lodeynoye Pole)
      • Lake Onega
        • Suna (in Kondopoga
          )
        • Vodla (near Pudozh
          )
        • Andoma (north of Vytegra
          )
        • Vytegra
          (near Vytegra)
    • Vuoksi (in Solovyovo and Priozersk
      )
      • Volchya (near Losevo
        )
• Sestra (near Sestroretsk
  )

Black Sea

The rivers in this section are sorted west to east.

• Dnieper (near Kherson, Ukraine
  )
  • Desna (near Kyiv, Ukraine)
    • Seim (in Sosnytsia
      , Ukraine)
    • Novhorod-Siversky
      , Ukraine)
  • Vyazma
• Mius (into Sea of Azov near Taganrog
  )
• Don (into Sea of Azov near Azov
  )
  • Temernik (near Rostov-on-Don
    )
  • Manych (in Manychskaya, east of Rostov-on-Don)
  • Sal (in Semikarakorsk
    )
  • Donets (near Semikarakorsk
    )
  • Khopyor (near Serafimovich
    )
  • Osered' (near Pavlovsk
    )
  • Bityug (near Pavlovsk
    )
  • Voronezh (near Voronezh
    )
• Yeya (into Sea of Azov near Yeysk
  )
• Kuban (into Sea of Azov near Temryuk
  )
  • Laba (in Ust-Labinsk
    )
• Mzymta (near Sochi
  )

Caspian Sea

The rivers in this section are sorted west to east.

• Sulak (north of Makhachkala
  )
  • Andi Koysu (near Gimry)
  • Avar Koysu (near Gimry)
• Terek (near Kizlyar
  )
  • Malka (near Prokhladny
    )
• Kuma
  (north of Kizlyar)
  • Podkumok (near Georgiyevsk
    )
• Volga (near Astrakhan
  )
  • Yeruslan (near Kamyshin
    )
  • Tereshka (near Saratov
    )
  • Bolshoy Irgiz (near Volsk
    )
  • Maly Irgiz
  • Chapayevka (near Chapayevsk
    )
  • Samara
    )
  • Sok
    (in Samara)
    • Kondurcha
      (north of Samara)
  • Bolshoy Cheremshan (near Dimitrovgrad
    )
  • Bezdna
  • Aktay
  • Kama (south of Kazan
    )
    • Vyatka (near Nizhnekamsk
      )
      • Cheptsa (near Kirov)
    • Belaya (near Neftekamsk
      )
      • Ufa (in Ufa
        )
        • Yuryuzan (near Karaidel
          )
    • Chusovaya (near Perm
      )
      • Sylva
        (near Perm)
    • Yegoshikha
      (in Perm)
    • Mulyanka
      (in Perm)
    • Vishera (near Solikamsk
      )
      • Kolva (near Cherdyn
        )
  • Kazanka
    (in Kazan)
  • Sviyaga
    (west of Kazan)
  • Ilet (near Volzhsk
    )
  • Anish (near Kozlovka
    )
  • Malaya Kokshaga (near Kokshaysk
    )
    • Maly Kundysh
  • Bolshaya Kokshaga
    (near Kokshaysk)
    • Bolshoy Kundysh
  • Tsivil (near Novocheboksarsk
    )
  • Rutka
  • Vetluga (near Kozmodemyansk
    )
  • Sura (in Vasilsursk
    )
    • Pyana
    • Alatyr
      )
  • Kerzhenets (near Lyskovo
    )
  • Kstovo
    and Lyskovo)
  • Oka (in Nizhny Novgorod
    )
    • Gorbatov
      )
      • Teza (near Yuzha
        )
      • Nerl (near Vladimir
        )
    • Moksha (near Yelatma
      )
      • Tsna (near Sasovo
        )
    • Pra (near Kasimov
      )
    • Moskva (in Kolomna
      )
      • Pakhra (near Moscow
        )
      • Neglinnaya
        (in Moscow)
      • Yauza
        (in Moscow)
      • Setun
        (in Moscow)
      • Istra
        (near Moscow)
      • Ruza (near Ruza
        )
    • Nara (in Serpukhov)
    • Protva
      (near Serpukhov)
      • Luzha (near Maloyaroslavets
        )
    • Ugra (near Kaluga
      )
    • Upa (near Suvorov
      )
      • Plava River (near Krapivna
        )
  • Uzola (near Balakhna
    )
  • Unzha (in Yuryevets
    )
    • Neya (near Makaryev
      )
    • Viga
  • Nyomda
    (near Yuryevets)
    • Shuya
  • Kostroma (in Kostroma
    )
    • Buy
      )
  • Kotorosl (in Yaroslavl)
  • Sogozha (near Poshekhonye
    )
  • Sheksna (in Cherepovets
    )
    • Lake Beloye (near Belozersk
      )
      • Kovzha
      • Kema
  • Suda
    (near Cherepovets)
    • Kolp
  • Mologa (near Vesyegonsk
    )
  • Kashinka (near Kalyazin
    )
  • Nerl
    (near Kalyazin)
    • Kubr
  • Medveditsa (near Kimry
    )
  • Dubna (in Dubna
    )
    • Sestra
      (near Dubna)
  • Shosha (near Konakovo
    )
    • Lama (near Kozlovo
      )
  • Tvertsa (in Tver
    )
    • Osuga (near Torzhok
      )
  • Vazuza (in Zubtsov
    )
  • Selizharovka (in Selizharovo
    )
• Ural (in Atyrau, Kazakhstan
  )
  • Ilek (in Ilek
    )
  • Sakmara (in Orenburg
    )

Arctic Ocean, east of the Urals

The rivers in this section are sorted west to east.

• Ob (to Gulf of Ob
  )
  • Synya
  • Sob
  • Irtysh (near Khanty-Mansiysk)
    • Tobol (in Tobolsk
      )
      • Tavda
        (southwest of Tobolsk)
      • Tura (some 80 km downstream from Tyumen
        )
      • Iset (near Yalutorovsk
        )
        • Miass (east of Shadrinsk
          )
      • Ubagan
      • Uy (south of Kurgan
        )
    • Ishim (in Ust-Ishim
      )
    • Tara near (Tara
      )
    • Om (in Omsk
      )
  • Tromyogan
    • Agan
  • Vatinsky Yogan
  • Vakh (near Nizhnevartovsk
    )
    • Sabun
  • Tym (in Ust-Tym
    )
  • Kievsky Yogan
  • Vasyugan (in Kargasok
    )
  • Parabel (near Kargasok
    )
  • Ket (near Kolpashevo
    )
  • Chulym (in Ust-Chulym
    )
  • Tom (50 km downstream from Tomsk
    )
  • Aley (near Barnaul)
  • Kazym
  • Chaya
    • Iksa
  • Barnaulka
  • Kasmala
  • Katun River (in Biysk
    )
  • Biya River (in Biysk
    )
    • Chulyshman (into Lake Teletskoye)
      • Bashkaus
        • Chebdar
• Nadym (into Gulf of Ob in Khorovaya
  )
• Pur (into Taz Estuary in Ivay-Sale
  )
• Taz (into Taz Estuary in Tazovsky
  )
  • Tolka
  • Khudosey
• Yenisei
  • Tanama
  • Turukhan (near Turukhansk
    )
  • Abakan (in Abakan)
  • Kureika River
  • Yeloguy
  • Big Kheta
  • Sym
  • Lower Tunguska
    • Vivi River
  • Bakhta River
  • Stony Tunguska
    • Katanga
    • Tetere
  • Big Pit River
  • Kan River
  • Mana River
  • Bazaikha River
  • Kacha River
  • Kem River
  • Khemchik River
  • Khantayka
  • Strelka
    )
    • Oka (near Bratsk
      )
    • Bolshaya Belaya (near Usolye-Sibirskoye
      )
    • Irkut (in Irkutsk
      )
    • Selenga (into Lake Baikal near Kabansk)
      • Ulan Ude
        )
      • Khilok River
      • Chikoy River
        • Menza River
      • Orkhon River (Mongolia)
        • Tuul River (Mongolia)
      • Dzhida River
      • Eg River
        (Mongolia)
    • Barguzin River (into Lake Baikal in Ust-Barguzin
      )
    • Turka River
      (into Lake Baikal)
    • Upper Angara River (into Lake Baikal near Severobaykalsk
      )
      • Churo
    • Taseyeva River
      • Chuna River
        • Kosovka River
      • Biryusa River
• Pyasina (east of Taz Estuary
  )
• Khatanga (near Kozhevnikovo
  )
  • Khatanga
    )
    • Kotuykan
  • Khatanga
    )
• Anabar (at Khorgo
  )
  • Suolama
  • Udya (Udzha)
  • Malaya Kuonamka
  • Bolshaya Kuonamka
• Uele
• Olenyok (in Ust-Olenyok
  )
  • Arga-Sala
    • Kengeede
    • Kyuyonelekeen
    • Kukusunda
    • Kyuyonelikeen
  • Alakit
  • Siligir
  • Merchimden
  • Ukukit
  • Birekte
  • Kuoyka
  • Beyenchime
  • Kyuyutingde
  • Bur
  • Khorbusuonka
  • Kelimyar
  • Buolkalakh
• Lena (near Tiksi
  )
  • Vilyuy (near Sangar
    )
    • Tyung
    • Chybyda
      • Byrykan
    • Tonguo
    • Ulakhan-Botuobuya
    • Ochchuguy Botuobuya
    • Chona
      • Vakunayka
        • Killemtine
      • Dekimde
    • Chirkuo
    • Lakharchana
      • Khakhsyk
    • Akhtaranda
      • Alymdya
      • Olguydakh
    • Sen (river)
    • Ulakhan-Vava
    • Tyukyan
      • Chilli
    • Markha
    • Bappagay
    • Ygyatta
    • Kempendyay
  • Lungkha
    • Khatyng-Yuryakh
  • Tyugyuene
  • Sitte
  • Khanchaly
  • Kenkeme
  • Lyapiske
  • Tympylykan
  • Belyanka
    • Munni
  • Batamay
  • Aldan (in Batamay
    )
    • Amga (in Ust-Amginskoye
      )
    • Maya (in Ust-Maya
      )
      • Mati
      • Batomga
      • Maymakan
      • Severny Uy
      • Ingili
      • Yudoma
    • Amedichi
    • Tyry
    • Eastern Khandyga
    • Notora
    • Timpton
    • Yungyuele
    • Uchur
    • Allakh-Yun
    • Khanda
    • Tompo
      • Delinya
    • Tatta
    • Baray
    • Tukulan
    • Kele
    • Tumara
      • Nuora
  • Bolshoy Patom
  • Olyokma
    • Chara
      • Tokko
      • Apsat
      • Zhuya
    • Nyukzha
    • Tungir
  • Buotama
  • Menda
  • Tamma
  • Myla
  • Namana
    • Keyikte
  • Markha
    • Namyldzhylakh
  • Markhachan
  • Sinyaya
    • Matta
    • Chyna
  • Lyutenge
  • Tuolba
  • Linde
  • Suola
  • Kyuelenke
  • Muna
  • Motorchuna
  • Molodo
    • Syungyude
  • Cherendey (left)
  • Biryuk (left)
  • Nyuya (in Nyuya)
  • Derba
  • Ura
  • Peleduy
  • Vitim (in Vitim
    )
    • Kalar
    • Kalakan
    • Tsipa
      • Amalat
      • Tsipikan
    • Bambuyka
    • Muya
    • Kuanda
    • Kalakan
    • Mamakan
    • Karenga
    • Konda
    • Mama
  • Chaya
  • Ichera
  • Chechuy
  • Pilyuda
  • Chuya
  • Kirenga (in Kirensk
    )
  • Tayura
  • Kuta
  • Tutura
  • Ilga
  • Kyundyudey
  • Undyulyung (From the Verkhoyansk Range)
  • Nuora
  • Begidyan
  • Khoruongka
  • Sobolokh-Mayan
  • Menkere
  • Natara
  • Uel Siktyakh
  • Dzhardzhan
  • Byosyuke
  • Tikyan
  • Dyanyshka
  • Eyekit
• Yana (in Nizhneyansk
  )
  • Adycha
    • Derbeke
    • Nelgese
    • Tuostakh
    • Borulakh
    • Charky
  • Oldzho
    • Nenneli
  • Tykakh
  • Abyrabyt
  • Dulgalakh
  • Sartang
  • Bytantay
  • Baky
• Chondon
  • Nuchcha
  • Buor-Yuryakh
• Sellyakh
• Omoloy
  • Kuranakh-Yuryakh
  • Arga-Yuryakh
  • Ulakhan-Kyuegyulyur
• Kyuyol-Yuryakh
• Khroma
  • Yuryung-Ulakh
• Sundrun
  • Maly Khomus-Yuryakh
• Bogdashkina
• Volchya
• Gusinaya
• Indigirka (near Tabor, Sakha)
  • Khastakh
  • Shandrin
  • Kuydusun
  • Kyuyente
    • Bryungade
    • Suntar
    • Agayakan
  • Elgi
  • Nera
  • Moma
  • Chibagalakh
  • Badyarikha
  • Selennyakh
  • Shangina
  • Bolshaya Ercha
  • Druzhina
  • Uyandina
    • Khatyngnakh
    • Khachimcher
    • Buor-Yuryakh
  • Allaikha
  • Byoryolyokh
• Alazeya
  • Buor-Yuryakh
  • Rossokha
    • Arga-Yuryakh
• Kolyma (near Ambarchik
  )
  • Anyuy (near Nizhnekolymsk
    )
    • Bolshoy Anyuy River
    • Maly Anyuy River
  • Omolon
    (±80 km upstream from Nizhnekolymsk)
    • Ango
    • Oloy
    • Kedon
    • Namyndykan
  • Popovka
  • Yasachnaya
    • Omulyovka
  • Zyryanka
  • Ozhogina
  • Sededema
  • Buyunda
  • Seymchan
  • Balygychan
  • Sugoy
  • Debin
  • Bakhapcha
    • Maltan
  • Taskan
  • Korkodon
    • Bulun
  • Beryozovka
  • Tenka
  • Ayan-Yuryakh
  • Kulu
• Chaun River
• Palyavaam River
• Pegtymel River (flowing into Chukchi Sea
  )
• Amguema River
• Ioniveyem River
• Chegitun River

Pacific Ocean/Sea of Okhotsk

The rivers in this section are sorted north to south.

• Anadyr (in the Bering Sea
  )
  • Tanyurer
  • Belaya (Chukotka)
  • Yablon
  • Yeropol
  • Mayn
• Velikaya
• Khatyrka
  • Iomrautvaam
• Ukelayat
• Paren
• Ola
• Arman
  • Khasyn
• Yama
• Yana
• Taui
  • Chyolomdzha
• Inya
• Ulbeya
• Kukhtuy
• Okhota
• Urak
• Gizhiga
• Penzhina
  • Belaya (Penzhina)
  • Oklan
• Kamchatka (in Ust-Kamchatsk
  )
• Avacha (near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
  )
• Bolshaya (west coast of Kamchatka Peninsula
  )
• Kikhchik (west coast of Kamchatka Peninsula
  )
• Uda (in Chumikan
  )
  • Maya
• Amur (in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
  )
  • Anyuy (in Naykhin
    )
  • Ussuri (in Khabarovsk
    )
    • Bikin River (near Bikin
      )
      • Kontrovod (near Luchegorsk)
  • Gur
  • Gorin
  • Bureya (near Raychikhinsk
    )
  • Zeya (in Blagoveshchensk
    )
    • Tom (±80 km upstream from Blagoveshchensk
      )
    • Selemdzha (±50 km upstream from Svobodny
      )
      • Nora
      • Ulma
      • Orlovka
      • Byssa
    • Dep
  • Shilka
    • Nercha (near Nerchinsk
      )
    • Ingoda (near Shilka
      )
    • Onon
      (near Shilka)
  • Amgun
    • Nimelen
  • Argun
  • Amazar
• Tumen (in Sŏsura-ri, North Korea)

Endorheic Siberian rivers

• Bagan (river)
• Burla (river)
• Chulym (Lake Malye Chany)
• Karasuk (river)
• Kargat (river)
• Kuchuk (river)
• Kulunda (river)

Unsorted

• Chernaya River(into Kamenka River (Saint Petersburg)
  )
• Kosovoy
• Tuloma River
• Rosta River

Alphabetical list

A–G