Kerzhenets River (Керженец in Russian) is a river in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Volga. The length of the river is 290 km. The area of its basin is 6140 sq km. It flows into the Volga near Lyskovo, about 70 km east of Nizhny Novgorod. For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A river is a large natural waterway. ... Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Нижегоро́дская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre/Kilometer (only km in minuscule is the correct representation of kilometer as an SI unit of length) Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management, in the field of Library and information science Knowledge Machine, the KM knowledge representation... For the term related to television programmes, see watershed (television). ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Area - Total 260,000 mi² Population - City (2003) - Metropolitan 1,334,249 2 million approx. ...
There used to be numerous settlements of the Old Believers (called Керженские скиты, or Kerzhenets monasteries) along the Kerzhenets River in the 17th-19th centuries. Fragment of painting Boyarynja Morozova by Vasily Surikov depicting defiant Old Believer arrested by Czarist authorities in 1671. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are the Volga, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dniepr and the Western Dvina.
In Asia, important rivers are the Ob, Irtysh, Yenisei, Angara, Lena, Amur, Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma.
Rivers that flow into other rivers are ordered by the proximity of their point of confluence to the mouth of the main river, i.e.