Tobol is a river

River

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 in Kurgan

Kurgan Oblast

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 and Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Tyumen. The oblast has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous okrugs—Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Tyumen is the largest city, with over half a million inhabitants...

s in Russia

Russia

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 and Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

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, left tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

 of the Irtysh. The length of the Tobol River is 1591 km. The area of its drainage basin

Drainage basin

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 is 426,000 km². Average discharge at mouth is 805 m³/s. The lower reaches of the river freeze up in late October - November, the upper reaches in November. It stays under the ice until the second half of April - early May. The Tobol River is navigable within 437 km from its estuary.

History

The Tobol River was one of the four important rivers of the Khanate of Sibir

Siberia Khanate

The Khanate of Sibir were the patrilineal descendants of Shayban , the fifth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan. The Khanate had an ethnically diverse population of Siberian Tatars, Khanty, Mansi, Nenets and Selkup people. Along with the Khanate of Kazan it was the northernmost Muslim state....

. In 1428 the khan was killed in a battle with the forces of Abu'l-Khayr Khan

Abu'l-Khayr Khan

Abu'l-Khayr Khan was the leader who united the nomadic Uzbek tribes from which the Kazakh khanate later separated in rebellion under Janybek Khan and Kerei Khan beginning in 1466....

 at the Battle of Tobol.

Cities and towns on Tobol

• Tobolsk
  Tobolsk
  Tobolsk is a town in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh Rivers. It is a historic capital of Siberia. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Lisakovsk
  Lisakovsk
  Lisakowsk - a city in Kostanai region of Kazakhstan. Located on the right bank of the Tobol River .-Blazon:Coat Lisakovsk adopted in 1995. The emblem depicts a blue sky with the sun. Beneath it runs the fox - the symbol of the city...
  
  
• Rudni
  Rudni
  Rudniy a city on the river Tobol Kostanai region of Kazakhstan. It appeared in 1957 in connection with the development of iron ore deposits, the construction Sokolovsko-Sarbai mining, and processing enterprise.-Name:...
  
  
• Kostanay
  Kostanay
  Kostanay , formerly known as Kustanay and Nikolayevsk , is a city located in the northern part of Kazakhstan at the Tobol River. The population living in Kostanay is 301,317 people. Kostanay is the capital of Kostanay Province.-Public institutions:In Kostanay there are 8 higher educational...
  
  
• Kurgan
  Kurgan
  Kurgan is the Turkic term for a tumulus; mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves, originating with its use in Soviet archaeology, now widely used for tumuli in the context of Eastern European and Central Asian archaeology....
  
  
• Yalutorovsk
  Yalutorovsk
  Yalutorovsk is a town in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located on the Tobol River southeast of Tyumen. Population: It was founded in 1639 as the settlement of Yalutorovsky and was granted town status in 1782....
  
  

Main tributaries

• Uy
  Uy River (Tobol basin)
  The Uy River is a river in Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia with its upper reaches in Bashkiria. It partially flows along the borders of Chelyabinsk and Kurgan Oblasts with Kazakhstan. The Uy is a left tributary of the Tobol River. The length of the river is 462 km. The area of its basin is 34,400...
  
  
• Iset
  Iset River
  Iset River is a river in Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, and Tyumen Oblasts in Russia. It rises in the Ural Mountains 25km northwest of Yekaterinburg and flows east into the Tobol River. To the north of its basin is that of Tura River and to the south, the Uy River. The length of the Iset River is...
  
  
• Tura
  Tura River
  Tura River , also known as Dolgaya River ) is a historically important Siberian river which flows eastward from the central Ural Mountains into the Tobol River, a part of the Ob River basin. The main town is Tyumen....
  
  
• Tavda
  Tavda River
  The Tavda River is a Siberian river that drains part of the central Ural mountains into the Tobol River. It is north of the Tura River and south of the Konda River. It is located in Sverdlovsk Oblast and Tyumen Oblast. It is formed by the confluence of the Lozva and Sosva Rivers. The length of...
  
  
• Ubagan
  Ubagan River
  The Ubagan River is a river of Kazakhstan....