Tagil River in the Sverdlovsk Region, right tributary Tours: description

One of the most picturesque rivers of the Sverdlovsk Regionattracts not only with its fascinating alloys on the mountain rapids, but also by "quiet" hunting - fishing. For lovers of active recreation with a backpack behind the shoulders, the Tagil River is one of the typical taiga routes that will give a sense of the obstinacy of mountain rivers and the tranquility of the lower reaches with the aroma of meadow grasses.

Where is Tagil?

The source of the river is at Mount Pereval, in a spectacularthe ridge of the Red Mountains, which is the ancestor of many rivers of the Middle Urals. Seven kilometers from this place is the city of Novouralsk, which is famous for its significant contribution to the nuclear future of Russia. Tagil flows mainly to the north-east and is the right tributary of the Tour, one of the most significant rivers of the Sverdlovsk region.

They meet near the village of Bolotovskoye,which is located near the village of Sankino: only sixteen kilometers. To navigate and more accurately understand where this is, you need to find on the map Nizhny Tagil: this city is north of Yekaterinburg, it is on it that the desired river is located.

Description and characteristics

The length of the Tagil River is 412 kilometers, andThe water basin is spread over 10,100 square kilometers (for comparison: the area of ​​the entire Sverdlovsk region is 195,000 square kilometers). In the upper reaches the river is quite stormy, with dangerous rapids and dams, and closer to the lower reaches it becomes a more calm, flat river with a slow current.

The river covers three important reservoirs of the Urals: Nizhne- and Verkhnetagilskoe and Lenevskoye, being a part of the water system of the Irtysh District. Forests in the river district are mostly taiga, with a predominance of coniferous trees and thick bushes, and the farther away from settlements, the more wolves, moose and lynx are found, foxes and rabbits are regulars, and sometimes brown bears can be encountered. In addition to numerous waterfowl, you can meet grouse and grouse, as well as grouse.

There are two important cities on the river: Upper and Lower Tagil, on the map in more detail you can see how winding the river and how numerous its tributaries. Its main food is snow and due to its tributaries.

The main tributaries of Tagil

The river has about forty tributaries of different extent and distance from the mouth:

• Barancha - extends for 70 km.
• Vyva length of about 34 km, connects with the main river in the city of Nizhny Tagil.
• Salda reaches a length of 122 km and is considered one of the most important tributaries feeding the Tagil River.
• Mugai is the second most important tributary, originating in the Mugai marshes and stretching for 88 km.
• Kirtomka in length is about 81 km, beginning 140 meters above sea level.

The nature of the mountain river is visible on the rapids

Not reaching twenty kilometers to the villageTagilsky, on the river there is a two-stage Pryanishnikovskiy roll, and after it, between Taghilsky and the village of Morshinino, the rolls are more complex and dangerous: a 300-meter zigzag, crushed by large boulders, randomly lying and tearing the main stream of the river. After a short break there is one more, after turning left.

Further along the river, the right bank becomes steeper andabove, towering granite cliffs up to a hundred meters high, and until the confluence with the tributary of Salda, the Tagil River begins to strongly loop between the hills and gradually becomes much deeper and fuller, despite the same width (about 45 meters).

After the mouth with Salda begins another kilometer threshold, something similar to Morshininsky, and after it another eight smaller and simpler.

Not reaching Tolstova, the river is wider by twenty meters, the mountains and forest give way to the floodplain meadows and populated areas.

Origin of the name of the river

The origin of the name is the theme of olddiscussions between historians, linguists and ethnographers. According to the common and widespread version of the word "tagil" in translation from Vogul means "a lot of water, a lot of water", but this option is constantly challenged by linguists who are inclined to two more interesting versions.

• The most primitive option: in translation from the Tatar language "tag" is "more", and "uly" (yul - according to some sources) is translated as "river". This version is little loved by historians because of its lack of conviction.
• "Tag" in ancient Turkic means a mountain, "el" - the motherland or country. That is, initially Tagil is not a river, it is a mountainous country, and the name of the locality has determined the name of the river in the future.
• There is a Kazakh version of the translation: "tagyly" is a place with wild animals, or a place rich in game.

Which of the translation options is valid, only the long-dead ancestors know, but in all versions there is a reason and a hidden meaning.

Tagil Pond

Artificial pond with a sandy bottom areaabout ten square kilometers extends to Lenin Avenue in Nizhny Tagil, and the beginning takes near the village of Nikolo-Pavlovskoye, in the Gornoural district. The Tagil River crosses this pond and extends farther to the north.

Almost all the banks of the Tagil Pond are occupiedvarious economic objects, sanatoriums and beaches, residential quarters, only the southern part is little mastered - there the area is swamped in places, but "wild" tourists and lovers of fishing still often stop there, far from noise and fuss. The depth of the pond reaches two meters, which makes it possible for fish farms to actively breed freshwater fish. Among avid fishermen there is a saying: "If you want to catch a significant fish - go to Tagil." A favorite place for fishing is at the dam at the entrance to Tagil, there is excellent pike and perch, ide and goldfish, burbot and bream. Moreover, fishermen claim that in this place the fish is caught at any time of the year and day.

Historical facts about the Tagil River

Between the villages of Balakino and Makhnevo, whichstretched on the shore, there is a rocky ridge on which rock paintings with ocher, dated back to 5 thousand years, have been preserved. Images of local wild animals still attract archeologists and local lore.

In 1852, on the Tagil River towards the river Tura made his famous campaign Ermak Timofeevich, Siberian conqueror.

According to Tagil, the first Siberian route was laid forcolonists who were looking for a new life and their lands. A few years later the tract was moved to a safer location, but the river still keeps the secrets of the first pioneers of the Urals.

A few kilometers from the village of Yasvalocated Big Balaban, which is a national botanical monument of nature. Here was once one of the parking lots of the legendary Cossack ataman Ermak, on which his associates Vasiliev and Kashin founded the settlement.

Bear-stone is the pride of the Urals

18 kilometers from Nizhny Tagil on the river bankis located the famous Bear-stone: rock massif about 288 meters high, from afar resembling a sleeping beast. This place was chosen by climbers and climbers for their training everyday life, because the rocks here consist mainly of syenite (a rock similar to granite, but without quartz).

This place is still valuable because in the rock at the height ofseventy meters there is a grotto with traces of the ancient man's stay. It is noteworthy that this is the only known site of the primitive man in the Urals. Opposite this historic place there is one more, not less appreciated by historians, is Ermakovo ancient settlement in which the brave traveler wintered in the distant 1852 and built ships for rafting along the river towards new lands.