Pyshma (river)

The Pyshma (Russian: Пышма) is a river in Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts of Russia.

[2] The Pyshma has its sources at 290 metres (950 ft) above sea level on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains, near the town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, just north of Yekaterinburg.

The river flows onto the western part of the West Siberian Plain, and its confluence with the Tura River is at 46 metres (151 ft) above sea level, at the village of Sosonovo, some 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Tyumen.

Its main tributaries are, from the right: the Kunara and the Bolshaya Kalinovka, and from the left: the Reft.

[2] The Pyshma freezes over in early November and stays frozen until the spring thaw starts in April.