River
Volkhov
224 km from source to mouth · Russia.
RussiaFlows into Lake Ladoga
In numbers
Length
224km
Average flow
590m³/s
Basin
80,200km²
Drop
38m
from 16 m to -22 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
224 km of river and 21 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmIlmenat 16 m
- 0 kmIlmen960 km²
- 8 kmPedestrian Bridge (Veliky Novgorod)
- 8 kmVeliky Novgorod222,669 people
- 8 kmVelikiy Novgorod222,868 people
- 11 kmKolmovsky bridge
- 14 kmPit'batributary
- 22 kmMaly Volkhovetstributary
- 23 kmKrechevitsy3,287 people
- 84 kmPolisttributary
- 98 kmOzero Puchinnoye0.5 km²
- 101 kmKeresttributary
- 104 kmOskuyatributary
- 120 kmPchyovzhatributary
- 128 kmTigodatributary
- 136 kmKirishi56,190 people
- 147 kmOlomnatributary
- 167 kmVloyatributary
- 194 kmVolkhov Hydroelectric Station
- 195 kmVolkhov45,673 people
- 205 kmElenatributary
- 217 kmNovaya Ladoga9,680 people
- 224 kmLake Ladogaat -22 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Novgorod and Leningrad Oblasts, Russia
At the mouth it carries 593 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4.2 seconds. It drops from 16 m to -22 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 80,200 km², about the size of CZ. 1.1 million people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from April to May; lowest: from December to March. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (11% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Velikiy NovgorodLargest city on its banks · 222,868 people
- Pulkovo Airport (LED)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 153 km from the city
- On the water22 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Volkhov, month by month
Highest water: from April to May
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to February. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 460 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,200 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
Volkhov: the basin in numbers
79,389 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 14/km²people per km²
- 114maverage altitude of the basin
- 639mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 4.0°Caverage air temperature
- 9%protected areas
- 2.6%covered by lakes
- 3.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 76% Forest
- 11% Cropland
- 7% Pasture
- 1% 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
Volkhov: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 6LocksProletarsky Canal and 5 more
- 1Waterfalls
- 2Boat ramps
- 2Ferry piers
- 17Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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Volkhov in our other atlases
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2lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ilmenkm 0 · 10 m deep960km²
- Ozero Puchinnoyekm 1010.5km²
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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
Volkhov in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (25)
Also: Tigoda, Pchyovzha, Maly Volkhovets, Oskuya, Kerest, Elena, Pit'ba, Polist, Vloya, Olomna, Osma, Vavol, Gzen, Glubochka, Derevyanka, Dymenka, Zhubka, Zlatynka, Rakomka, Robeyka, Siglinka, Sosninka, Chazhenka, Chyornaya
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FinlandWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q15243) · 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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