Samara River

Samara River

also called  Samarka 

      river in Orenburg and Samara oblasti (provinces), western Russia, a left-bank tributary of the Volga. It rises in the southern Ural Mountains northwest of Pavlovka and flows 369 miles (594 km) generally west-northwest to join the Volga at Samara. The area of its drainage basin is 18,000 square miles (46,500 square km).

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