Nezhegol River
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Belgorod Oblast
Belgorod Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Belgorod. Population: 1,532,670 .-History:...
in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. It is a left tributary of the Seversky Donets
Seversky Donets
Seversky Donets is a river on the south of the East European Plain. It originates in the Central Russian Upland, north of Belgorod, flows south-east through Ukraine and then again through Russia to join the Don River, about from the Sea of Azov...
. It is 75 km long, with a drainage basin
Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...
of 2,878 km². The average discharge is 8.3 m³/sek (3 km from its mouth).
Five kilometres before its mouth in the Seversky Donets lies the town of Shebekino
Shebekino
Shebekino is a town in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, situated on the Nezhegol River some southeast of Belgorod. Population: 36,000 .Shebekino was founded in 1713 and granted town status in 1938....
.