River
Iset
606 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Tobol
In numbers
Length
606km
Average flow
73m³/s
Basin
58,900km²
Drop
198m
from 248 m to 50 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
606 km of river and 47 stops on the way: 12 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 248 m
- 0 kmIset’3,191 people
- 1 kmLake Iset28 km²
- 9 kmMelkoe1.4 km²
- 26 kmVerkh-Iset Reservoir18 km²
- 29 kmMakarov Bridge
- 31 kmGorodskoy Pond0.4 km²
- 31 kmPlotinka
- 31 kmYekaterinburg1,468,833 people
- 32 kmPedestrian Bridge over Iset River on Karl Marx street
- 33 kmTsarsky Bridge, Yekaterinburg
- 45 kmDam of the Lower Iset Pond
- 45 kmNizhneisetsky Pond3.0 km²
- 58 kmAramilkatributary
- 59 kmAramil15,237 people
- 74 kmBobrovskiy5,198 people
- 88 kmDvurechensk5,121 people
- 90 kmSyserttributary
- 103 kmBrusyankatributary
- 141 kmPokrovskoye3,573 people
- 149 kmKamyshenkatributary
- 167 kmMartyush4,110 people
- 170 kmKamenkatributary
- 172 kmKamensk-Ural’skiy182,500 people
- 180 kmVolkovskoye Reservoir2.2 km²
- 214 kmSinaratributary
- 230 kmKataykatributary
- 231 kmKataysk15,619 people
- 260 kmDalmatovo14,526 people
- 262 kmTecha Rivertributary
- 271 kmSuvaryshtributary
- 280 kmKrutishkatributary
- 321 kmShadrinsk67,067 people
- 338 kmBarnevatributary
- 382 kmIchkinatributary
- 397 kmMiasstributary
- 404 kmKyzylbaykatributary
- 440 kmTersyuktributary
- 451 kmChërnayatributary
- 453 kmMostovkatributary
- 485 kmIsetskoye7,170 people
- 489 kmIryumtributary
- 489 kmYuzyatributary
- 507 kmBeshkil'tributary
- 513 kmBeshkil'katributary
- 546 kmAbitsertributary
- 557 kmIngalatributary
- 557 kmBorovaya Ingalatributary
- 606 kmTobolat 50 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, and Kurgan Oblasts, Russia
At the mouth it carries 73 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 34 seconds. It drops from 248 m to 50 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 58,900 km², about the size of TG. 3.7 million people live in it. Highest water: 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
- YekaterinburgLargest city on its banks · 1,468,833 people
- Koltsovo Airport (SVX)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 16 km from the city
- On the water7 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe6 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Iset, 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. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 47 m³/s in the lowest month to 180 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
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Iset: the basin in numbers
58,260 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 67/km²people per km²
- 193maverage altitude of the basin
- 464mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 2.0°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 4.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 27% Forest
- 37% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
- 3% Towns and cities
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
Iset: what you find on the way
- 4Weirs
- 5Waterfalls
- 5Rapids
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 2Boat ramps
- 5Marinas
- 2River beachesCuba Beach Club
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Iset in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
6lakes on its wayLakeyas
9mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (6)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Isetkm 028km²
- Melkoekm 71.4km²
- Verkh-Iset Reservoirkm 2218km²
- Gorodskoy Pondkm 260.4km²
- Nizhneisetsky Pondkm 383.0km²
- Volkovskoye Reservoirkm 1532.2km²
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Mountains at the source (9)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Chertovo Gorodishche Rocks4.0 km away347m
- Pshenichnaya8.1 km away427m
- Poldnyovka7.4 km away373m
- Petrogrom5.6 km away
- Falcon Stone Rock12 km away
- Gora Tolstik11 km away
- Gora Tolstikha9.2 km away
- Gora Motaikha5.0 km away
1 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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.
Photos
Iset in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
TobolRussia1,591 km800 m³/sTributaries (35)
Also: Miass, Techa River, Sinara, Brusyanka, Barneva, Reshyotka, Suvarysh, Beshkil', Abitser, Aramilka, Tersyuk, Mostovka, Beshkil'ka, Boris, Gryaznukha, Iryum, Istok, Ichkina, Kamyshenka, Katayka, Krutishka, Sysert, Yuzya, Kamyshevka
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q874369) · 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 |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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