The Khulga and Lyapin flow south for about 201 kilometres (125 mi) parallel to the Urals while the main Northern Sosva flows about 201 kilometres (125 mi) northward.

The united rivers then flow east southeast about 160 kilometres (100 mi) almost to the Ob near Igrim and then flow north about 80 kilometres (50 mi) before joining the Ob at Beryozovo.

[4] The average discharge of the river is 860 cubic metres per second (30,000 cu ft/s).

[citation needed] The larger flows north to join the Northern Sosva near Igrim.

After about 1593 the Northern Sosva was one of the main routes into Siberia (for the others, see Verkhoturye).