Pyshma

Pyshma 

an urban-type settlement and administrative center of Pyshma Raion, Sverdlovsk Oblast, RSFSR. It is located on the Pyshma River (Ob’ River basin), 4 km from the Oshchep-kovo railroad station on the Sverdlovsk-Tiumen’ line and 186 km east of Sverdlovsk. Pyshma has machine-building and milk plants.

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Pyshma 

a river in Sverdlovsk and Tiumen’ oblasts, RSFSR, a right tributary of the Tura (Ob’ River basin). It measures 603 km long and drains an area of 19,700 sq km. The Pyshma originates in the eastern Urals, flowing over the Trans-Ural Plain and the western edge of the Western Siberian Lowland. It is fed primarily by snow (60 percent). There is high water from April through May, and flash floods in summer. The mean flow rate is 34 cu m per sec, with a maximum rate of approximately 1,300 cu m per sec and a minimum of approximately 2 cu m per sec. The Pyshma freezes in the first half of November, and the ice breaks up in the second half of April. The river is used for floating timber and for supplying water to industry. Situated on the Pyshma are three reservoirs and the cities of Sukhoi Log, Kamyshlov, and Talitsa.