River
Mologa
456 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Rybinsk Reservoir
In numbers
Length
456km
Average flow
170m³/s
Basin
29,700km²
Drop
43m
from 140 m to 97 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
456 km of river and 29 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmTver Oblastat 140 m
- 4 kmOzero Svyatovskoye1.4 km²
- 28 kmBerezhatributary
- 63 kmBezhetsk28,114 people
- 65 kmOstrechinatributary
- 95 kmOzero Verestovo14 km²
- 110 kmAtemeshatributary
- 140 kmRivitsatributary
- 143 kmMaksatikha9,441 people
- 153 kmVolchinatributary
- 181 kmKezatributary
- 237 kmUlukatributary
- 237 kmRatynyatributary
- 246 kmSaragozhatributary
- 257 kmPolonukhatributary
- 267 kmVoldomitsatributary
- 267 kmSemytinkatributary
- 272 kmGuskatributary
- 280 kmMeglinkatributary
- 283 kmPestovo15,910 people
- 307 kmKirvatributary
- 328 kmKolodnyatributary
- 333 kmKattributary
- 343 kmKobozhatributary
- 353 kmVorozhatributary
- 353 kmIzhinatributary
- 355 kmUstyuzhna10,566 people
- 383 kmChagodoschatributary
- 406 kmVanyatributary
- 428 kmShalochtributary
- 456 kmRybinsk Reservoirat 97 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Tver Oblast, Russia
At the mouth it carries 172 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 15 seconds. It drops from 140 m to 97 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 29,700 km², about the size of AM. 200,000 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
- BezhetskLargest city on its banks · 28,114 people
- Cherepovets Airport (CEE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 182 km from the city
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Mologa, month by month
Highest water: from April to June
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 98 m³/s in the lowest month to 470 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
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The basin
Mologa: the basin in numbers
29,955 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 200,000people live in the basin
- 7/km²people per km²
- 159maverage altitude of the basin
- 645mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 3.4°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 1.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 69% Forest
- 14% Cropland
- 8% Pasture
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
Mologa: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 1Boat ramps
- 1Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Mologa in our other atlases
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2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ozero Svyatovskoyekm 41.4km²
- Ozero Verestovokm 8614km²
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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
Mologa in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (33)
Also: Chagodoscha, Kobozha, Volchina, Osen, Kat, Kirva, Atemesha, Berezha, Vanya, Keza, Martynovka, Topalka, Bochikha, Viritsa, Voldomitsa, Vorozha, Izhina, Neglubka, Ostrechina, Ostrozhnya, Polonukha, Rivitsa, Stolosha, Semytinka
Nearby
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| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1133858) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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