Berd (river)

Berd
The Berd flowing through the Berd Rocks
Mouth location in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
Native name	Бердь (Russian)
Location
Country	Russia
Region	Altai Krai, Novosibirsk Oblast
Physical characteristics
Mouth	Novosibirsk Reservoir
• coordinates	54°47′00″N 83°04′10″E
Length	363 km (226 mi)
Basin size	8,650 km2 (3,340 mi2)
Basin features
Progression	Ob→ Kara Sea
Tributaries
• right	Ik, Koyon

The Berd (Russian: Бердь) is a river in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob.

The Berd begins on the western slopes of the Salair ridge, flows 30 kilometres (19 mi) in Altai Krai territory and the rest in Novosibirsk Oblast. The river empties into the Novosibirsk Reservoir, which submerged 40 kilometres (25 mi) of the original Berd river after construction.

The Berd is 363 kilometres (226 mi) long and was formerly 416 kilometres (258 mi) long. Its drainage basin covers 8,650 square kilometres (3,340 mi²). The Ik is a tributary flowing into it from the north. Another river flowing into it is the Anfimov Mocheg.

Berd river, the city of Berdsk and the Berdsk gulf

Discharge averages 45.8 cubic metres per second (1,620 cu ft/s). Ice forms on the river in the first weeks of November and breaks apart in mid-April.

Naming, it is thought, is from Turkic languages "Berdi" with the meaning of "given".

Two cities, Berdsk and Iskitim, are along the river.

External links

• "Variety of the underwater and maritime vegetation for Berd river", "Some ecological problems of the Berd river and their solution approach", P.M.Kipriyanova (in Russian)