Bityug - Russian River, a left tributary of the River Don.It flows through the territory of Voronezh, Tambov and Lipetsk regions.On its banks are large settlements of Tambov, Voronezh region, Nizhny acidified.
Bityug river Oka-Don plain: description
length of the river is 379 km, basin area - 8840 square kilometers.Proceeds of the Oka-Don plain, which sometimes swampy.High right bank is covered with deciduous forests, and the left is a low plowed steppe.The main channel of the power comes from snowmelt.Ice on the river is held in mid-December and almost until April.The average annual flow rate of 18.2 m³ / s.
on the river and its tributaries are the following places: Novopokrovka, Bobrov, Mordovia, Anna, Ertil and others.
This river is very popular with fans of Voronezh fishing and boating.
River Bityug: Photo scenery
Some of its areas are hydrological and natural attractions.Back in 1998, the territory of the river in an area.Talitsky Camlik Lipetsk region is highlighted as a landscape monument "Upper reaches Bityug."
second portion landscape monument is located below the village of Anna.And to the left of him in the river empties Bityug Kurlak valley which has a width of 3000 meters.Its slopes are covered with oak groves full.
Bityug River has many tributaries: the left - Kurlak, Çigli, Tishanka, Ertil, Mordovka Mosque, Fish Jar, acidified et al., Right - Plaskusha flesh, Maleyka, Anna, Camlik, Mosolovka, Toyda.
Ecology district
river basin Bityug quite a lot of old factories for the production of sugar.Often, there were accidental discharges of waste substances that pollute the river.Especially distinguished in this Novopokrovskiy, Ertilsky Nizhnekislyaysky and sugar production plant in Voronezh region.
result of such disasters is to reduce the content of dissolved oxygen in the water, eventually disappearing indicators of water - crabs, fish die.
Landscapes, flora and fauna
Bityug Voronezh River was chosen by fans of fishing and tourism thanks to its fabulous abundance and variety of fish.Its waters are found in different species: pike, tench, ide, rudd, bream, roach, burbot, ruff, perch, chub, crucian carp.Less common are perch and catfish.
Flora is represented by oak forests, reed, rare at this latitude pine forests.Numerous sandy beaches, spacious plёsy and extensive backwaters, narrow channels and fast - all that is surveyed by traveling on the water.Driving Bityug river is very sinuous line, especially near chiglinskoy zone.
bit of history of settlement banks of the river
Bityug - the river, which has a rather curious history.
Back in 1450 on the banks of the Moscow troops Bityug Prince Basil II defeated the Tatars, who came from the hordes of Kichi-Mohammed.
be populated neighborhood began in 1613, during the reign of the young Tsar Mikhail Romanov.Then there was an urgent need for different ways to replenish the state treasury, devastated in the "troubled" times.
And one of the ways of implementation of this event was to surrender on behalf of the State "at the mercy" of vast unpopulated areas in the southern parts of the country.
Since then, a lot of what was going on in these places.
In April 1699 King Peter I signed a personal decree, according to which the Russian people and Cherkas, who settled near the river Bityug ought deported to their places of origin, and all the buildings burn and do not allow them to settle here.According to this decree to send a punitive detachment.
The archives are records of the time that the order was made and the inhabitants of these places were exiled and their houses burned (1515 yards).
After that Peter I issued a new decree on Bityug moved palace peasants from northern and central counties Russian (Poshehonsky, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Rostov and others.).That was in 1701.
Migration resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, not far withstood the difficulties and hard way, not adapted to the unusual climatic conditions.
Features Nature shores
Bityug - the river, the valley has between 3,000 and 7,000 meters on average, and even more than 10 km downstream.In the floodplain of its abundance of lakes.The river is very tortuous throughout, with numerous starorechyami.Sometimes it is divided into two, and sometimes even more - up to seven channels.
Another feature Bityug - channel has a lake-like expansion of up to 5 km and a width of 40 to 80 m. Depth is 8 m.
In the upper reaches of the river bank of treeless, in the middle (of the village of Anna) on the banks grows deciduous forest, so the valley becomes very scenic colorful view.
Below influx Çigli already on the right bank begins the southernmost Russian natural pine forest - Khrenovsky boron.
Bityug River - one of the most attractive rivers Podstepya Russian middle band.Extensive oak forests, rare for these latitudes pine forests, reed thickets, golden sandy beaches, narrow channels and more attract tourists to this amazing and wonderful places.
