Misplaced Pages

Kur (Kursk Oblast)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Kur River (Kursk Oblast)) For other uses, see Kur River (disambiguation). River in Russia
Kur
The mouth of Kur
Native nameКур (Russian)
Location
CountryRussia
Physical characteristics
MouthTuskar
 • locationKursk
 • coordinates51°43′22″N 36°11′29″E / 51.72278°N 36.19139°E / 51.72278; 36.19139
Basin features
ProgressionTuskarSeymDesnaDnieperDnieper–Bug estuaryBlack Sea

The Kur (Russian: Кур) is a river in central Russia. It flows through the city of Kursk, where it falls into the Tuskar, which then falls into the Seym. The name relates to a dialect word kur'ya ("long and narrow river bay"), which itself may represent a borrowing from Komi kurya 'bay' (although it has been suggested that the latter is borrowed from Russian).

References

  1. E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (Moscow, 1998), p. 232.
  2. Max Vasmer, Etimologicheskii slovar' russkogo yazyka, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1967), p. 431.

External links


Portal:


Stub icon

This Kursk Oblast location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article related to a river in Russia is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: