Where does the Nara River originate? Saturday hike along the Nara River

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Description

Length - 158 km, basin area - 2030 km². The average annual water flow in the middle reaches is 5 m³/s. Freezes in early December, opens in early April. It flows from Lake Poletskoye and flows through the Narskiye Ponds. The banks are low in the upper reaches, elevated in the middle and lower reaches.

Tributaries (km from mouth)

• 1.5 km: river Sukhmenka (pr)
• 66 km: Istya river (pr)
• 77 km: Chernichka river (lv)
• 84 km: Kremenka river (lv)
• 117 km: river Berezovka (Archangel) (lv)
• 118 km: Gvozdnya river (pr)
• 128 km: river Plesenka (pr)
• 129 km: river Inevka (lv)
• 133 km: Tarussa (Tarusa) river (pr)
• 145 km: Trasna river (lv)

Small tributaries:

• Serpeika - left
• Chavra - right
• Temenka - left
• blackberry
• Shatukha
• Chernichka
• humble woman
• Mint - left

The Nara River is described in detail in the “Book of the Big Drawing” compiled in the Discharge Order of the first half of the 17th century (protographer of 1627):

... And below Tarusa, 8 versts, the river Porotva fell into the Oka.
And below the river Porotva fell the river Nara, from Porotva about 12 versts.
And on the river on the Nara, from the mouth from the top on the left bank, the city of Serpukhov, from the Oka about a mile away.
And below Serpukhov on Nara, the Vysotskaya Monastery under the forest.
And on the other side of the river on the Nara, below Serpukhov under another forest, is the monastery of Vladychen; and below the Nara River, from the other side, the Skniga River fell into the Oku.
And below Nara and Skniga on the Oka is a ferry, and on that ferry past Serpukhov from Moscow there is a road to Tula.
And to Tula from Serpukhov 70 miles ...
... And the Nara River flowed out from the Moscow River close, from Mozhaisk, 20 versts and more.
And from the mouth of the Nara River to Koshira 40 versts ...

The Nara River is also famous for being mentioned in all textbooks and books on traffic rules of the Russian Federation as an example on the sign 6.11 “Name of the object”, where the name “r. NARA" is printed in white on a blue field, as it should be according to GOST. A road sign mentioning Nara also existed in the Soviet version of the SDA. The mouth section (2 km) of Nara is navigable and is included in the "List of GDP of the Russian Federation" - 2002 ". Here is a settling point for ships (backwater).

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Literature

• / Ed. K. N. Serbina. - M.-L.: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1950.
• Nara // Great Soviet Encyclopedia: [in 30 volumes] / ch. ed. A. M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. : Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.

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Last Saturday, June 2, on the first day off of summer, my friends and I walked along the Nara River along the route: der. Dyatlovo village Inino - Rainbow waterfall - village. Orekhovo - der. Lower - with. Tarutino - der. Agafino - der. Marfino - the military town of Kurilovo (40 km).

Early Saturday morning. Only recently it was 8 am, and we are already in Naro-Fominsk, standing at the bus stop and waiting for the bus, which should come in 15 minutes and take us to the small village of Dyatlovo - the starting point of our today's hike.
There are only four of us - me, tehi4ka , nadushenko and Ilya - only those who were able to wake up early in the morning to catch one of the first metro trains, and who were not afraid of a rainy forecast for most of the day, came.
It’s still quite cold in the morning, and a strong piercing wind makes you regret the lining for your jacket left in Moscow.
The bus arrives exactly on schedule and soon we are driving along a narrow highway that runs along Nara, at some moments approaching the river bank, at some moments moving away. It’s not far for us to go, but the bus is in no hurry, and the narrow, constantly winding road is hardly conducive to fast driving. There are not very many passengers by Saturday standards, and after the large village of Kamenskoye, the bus generally becomes almost empty. Soon we also come out at a deserted crossroads, from which a grader road leads through the field to the village of Dyatlovo.

Road to vil. Dyatlovo.

Neighborhood views.

nadushenko on the road.

The main road, having reached the village, split into several country roads, but we, having passed along the village street, go out to the Kremenka River, across which a pedestrian metal bridge is thrown.

On the bridge over the river Kremenka.

River valley Kremenka.

By the river.

Having arranged a small photo session, we continue our way and, having passed along another village street, we go out onto a field road that goes south.

Village remains behind. Dyatlovo.

Our path lies to the south.

nadushenko .

Somewhere to the left of us there are garden plots, to which the turn departs. But we do not need to go there - our path lies ahead: first through the field, and then through the forest.

Garden plots on the banks of the river. Kremenka.

Neighborhood views.

And the road goes into the forest.

As a result, having bypassed the sections on the side, we go out onto the concrete road, directly opposite the gates of the garden partnership.

Road to sites.

SNT "Nara".

At first, the concrete road goes along the right bank of the Kremenka River, but soon, before the next garden plots, we are already moving to the left bank and from that moment we are already in the Kaluga region.
For some time the road goes through the forest along the river, but closer to the village of Inino, former fields begin, now partially built up. The road itself turns into an unpleasant grader with relatively heavy traffic, passing by garden plots, cottage villages and other fenced areas that have appeared here recently.

On the way to the village Inino.

Neighborhood views.

Cottage settlement "Berendeevo kingdom".

The road itself eventually ends up on the A101 highway, but we don’t need to go there yet, so a little before reaching the highway, we happily leave the dusty grader and turn onto a field road. Very close to the turn, on the other side of the overgrown field, on the banks of the Nara River, is the Rainbow Falls. We went to him.

Road along the field.

On the way to the waterfall.

Having arranged a small photo shoot, we continue our journey and go down a narrow path. Once upon a time, earth steps were made here, but they do not help much on the descent, so sometimes you have to hold on to the trees so as not to move down.
The Rainbow Falls itself is formed by a stream that flows into the Nara River and falls from a height of about three meters from a steep bank. It is very beautiful here in sunny weather in late spring - early summer, when there is still quite a lot of water, and everything around is still green.

tehi4ka at the waterfall.

Another view of the waterfall.

Nara river.

We arrange a photo session near the waterfall, and then we decide to move to the other side of the river to have a snack there and at the same time shoot the waterfall from there. There is no bridge or ford here, so we climb up and go to the ford, which was already visible from the hill.

During the short time that we were at the bottom, the weather had already begun to deteriorate - the sky had already been covered with clouds, which did not bode well in the future.

View of the village Papineau and the A101 bridge across Nara.

View of the Nara river valley and the ford.

On the way to the ford.

And here is the ford itself. Somewhere at the end of summer, in August, it is quite shallow here - about knee-deep. But now there is still a lot of water, so the transition turned out to be quite exciting.

Crossing the Nara.

No sooner had we crossed than a tractor appeared.

And another view of the ford.

Having crossed the Nara River and bypassed a half-abandoned farm, we again go to the river bank, right in front of the waterfall, and here we have a snack on a sloping clearing.

On the way to the river Nara.

The waterfall is right in front of us.

Having had a snack, we continue along the river and, passing under the bridge of the A101 highway, we climb the old bridge and return to the left bank along it. Once upon a time, the A101 highway passed through this bridge, but then the bridge was recognized as emergency, a new bridge was built, and the old bridge is still in use, but for a local entrance.

Old bridge across the river Nara.

View of the river Nara and to the new bridge.

Near the old highway near the bridge there is a military monument. After all, it was in this area that fierce battles took place during the Great Patriotic War.

Further, our path lies south along the Nara River along a wide grader leading to the village. Olkhovo and garden plots around it.
The road itself is quite picturesque - on the right is the river, on the left there were fields, then a forest on a high bank. A few strained only cars, quite often passing nearby and raising columns of dust.

On the way to the village Olkhovo.

Soon, in front of the village of Olkhovo, the turn to the garden associations left to the left, and with it almost all the traffic. Having passed the village, we continue our journey along a picturesque sandy road that runs along the river and eventually leads to the bridge in the village. Orekhovo.

Pedestrian bridge across the Nara in the village. Olkhovo.

On the road along the river.

Nara river.

Der. Orekhovo, shop on the river bank.

Military monument in the village. Orekhovo.

Village street at the end of vil. Orekhovo takes us to a narrow paved highway, along which we cross the river. Bukhlovka and from which we will soon turn onto a quiet forest road leading to the village. Lower, interesting for us primarily because it has a footbridge across the river. Nara.

Local highway near the village. Orekhovo.

On the way to the village Lower.

Curious gates in the village. Lower.

By the time we reached the bridge, it had begun to rain. But while he was not strong, so he did not particularly interfere with photography.

On the way to the bridge.

Nara river.

Pedestrian bridge across the river. Nara.

On the other side of the river there are vast floodplain meadows, in some places sown with some kind of grass, in other places simply plowed up. Of course, it was possible to try to continue our journey along the coast, but time was running out for us for a long time, and the rain did not particularly favor climbing on the grass. Therefore, we got out at the village. Korsakovo on a deserted highway and went along it to the village. Tarutino.

On the way to the village Korsakovo.

nadushenko .

Mowed field.

tehi4ka

The village of Tarutino itself is known primarily due to the fact that the Battle of Tarutino took place here two centuries ago in 1812 - the first victory of the Russian army in the Patriotic War of 1812. Now there is a museum of the Patriotic War of 1812 in the village, but we did not go there. We photographed only the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, built in 1872.

Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1872).

By this time, the weather had deteriorated completely - the whole sky was already covered with clouds, and the rain had taken on a lingering character. But nevertheless we continue our way.
Not at the first attempt, having understood the intricacies of rural streets, we still find the right turn and soon we go out onto the field road leading to the village. Agafyino, located on the banks of the river. Nara. Around the floodplain meadows sown with grass.

The road to the village Agafino.

Tarutino is left behind.

On the way to the village.

Nara river.

In the village Agafino.

The road, passing along the village, descends to the river and continues along the shore. The rain has intensified by this time, so I don't shoot much anymore.
After the next ravine, we go to the outskirts of vil. Zhukovo, and behind it to the concrete road leading to the village. Marfino.

On the way to the village Zhukovo.

Time is steadily approaching towards evening. We no longer fit into the schedule, so we decide not to go to the village in the rain. Bulgakovo or in the village. Begichevo on dubious roads with fords and with the prospect of a further hour waiting for the bus in the downpour.
Instead, we decide to go to the military town of Kurilovo and try our luck there - in theory there is a bus service with Serpukhov, Obninsk and even Moscow, but we did not know the schedule.

Thus, having passed vil. Marfino, we turn onto a concrete road and cross the Nara River along a road bridge.

On the way to the river Nara.

View of the river Nara from the bridge.

The military town is not far away, but there is no direct road there (or we just didn’t see it) and we have to cut loops along the concrete. On the way, we cannot but pay attention to the ancient Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, built in 1776 in the village. Kurilovo.

Now the temple seems to be active, restoration work is underway in it.

Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1776).

The concrete road, after a little winding, takes us to the highway leading to the military camp.

Pond in vil. Marinka.

The military camp is near.

But luck this time decided not to be on our side - the bus to Serpukhov had already left half an hour ago, and only 10 minutes ago the last bus to Moscow left.
Sitting at the bus stop is already meaningless, so we decide to go to the A108 highway, and then catch a car in Balabanovo or Serpukhov. Along the way, we are trying to catch the car, but so far unsuccessfully.
Time passes and luck, which at first turned away from us, changes anger to mercy - one of the cars stops, the driver goes to Balabanovo and agrees to take us all to the city, for which we are very grateful to him.
It rains all the way and only stops in Balabanovo. At the same time, it is noticeably colder, so we spend the next 20 minutes before the train in a shop where we drink hot tea.
Soon the train comes and we leave for Moscow.

PS: All photos can be seen here.

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The Moscow region is replete with places with picturesque landscapes. Many hidden corners with virgin nature have been preserved there. One of these amazingly beautiful places is the Nara River with its stunning waterfall, vast valleys, tributaries and ponds. The river was chosen by fishermen, extreme sportsmen and those who love walks and picnics in the wild.

Geographical position

Russia is cut by rivers, rivulets and streams. The Nara River is the left-bank branch of the Oka, which flows steadily through the lands of the Moscow and Kaluga regions. The Nara flows into the Oka in the southern part of the Moscow region, near Serpukhov. It originates in Lake Poletskoye, spread over the Kubinka region in the west of the Moscow region. Its waters flow through the Nar ponds, meander through forests and meadows.

Two cities rise above the banks - Serpukhov and Naro-Fominsk. The legendary village of Tarutino settled in the northeastern part of the Kaluga region. During the Patriotic War of 1812 on the territory of the village for Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov organized a headquarters, and the Russian army camped in the vicinity of the village.

Description

The length of Nara is 158 kilometers. The river basin covers an area of ​​2030 km2. The width varies between 2-30 meters. The depth does not exceed 1.5 meters. There are broken and active dams on the river belt. In December, river waters hold down ice, which breaks up in April. In the upper reaches of the river there are the famous Nar Ponds. They feed the reservoir that connects them to the Oka.

The picturesque Nara River is shallow. However, it has a navigable section with a length of two kilometers. Vessels ply at the point where the Nara joins the Oka. The port of Serpukhov is also located here. From here, tourists go on one-day cruises in two directions. Ships go to the Tula region, to Polenovo. In addition, they run along the coasts of the Kaluga region to Tarusa.

In spring, the not too wide and shallow Nara turns into a turbulent river. Its waters boil capaciously and rush with great speed. During this period, tourists raft along it in kayaks. In the lower and middle reaches, the banks are high and hilly. Most of them are covered with forests. In some places, the river flows through shady alleys formed by the crowns of mighty trees. In the area of ​​​​the village of Chichkovo, among the water surface, reaching a width of 30 meters, small islands rise.

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Up to the mouth of the Istya, along the right bank, pine-spruce and broad-leaved forests, as well as spruce forests, grow. The moraine plains along the left bank are covered with mixed broad-leaved and small-leaved forests.

The shallow Nara River is covered with aquatic plants. In coastal zones, it is overgrown with algae, flowering plants, and hydrophytes. Along the banks there are thickets of cattail, reeds, duckweed, sedge. The silt flats are covered with loosestrife, a yellow pod.

Fauna

River fauna is formed by fish, birds and amphibians. In the Nar ponds, carp is found - a cultivated variety of carp. In the upper reaches of the Nara River, it is inhabited by pike, roach, rudd, perch, gudgeon, ruff and crucian carp.

Amphibians are represented by a population of lacustrine frogs living in dense thickets of reeds and high aquatic forbs. They feed on snails, spiders and other insects. Gray herons, teals, woodcocks and black-headed gulls have established colonies here.

Waterfall "Rainbow"

On Nara, a waterfall with the romantic name "Rainbow" roars loudly. It is located 45 kilometers from Moscow, near the village of Papino. In clear weather, the rays of the sun, refracted in droplets, create a stunning spectacle: a bright rainbow over rushing water jets. The lands between the Podolsky and Zhukovsky regions are replete with springs and springs, merging into a mighty stream flowing from a high peak.

On the bend of Nara, next to the Oka, there is a breathtaking view of the cascading springs and the waterfall. With the beginning of spring, when streams and rivers fill with melt water, the waterfall on the Nara River turns into a fabulous natural site. It is extremely difficult to get to the "Rainbow" at this time.

There are no paved roads to it. The canvas of a winding dirt road becomes very limp from spring waters, becoming a continuous mess, irresistible for vehicles. Summer and wash out the country road to such an extent that it becomes a real test for cars.

The best time to visit the waterfall is on dry summer days. Although the waterfall becomes shallow during this period and loses some strength, the impression is indelible. The jets, falling from a five-meter height, roar loudly and sparkle with a multi-colored rainbow that captivates the eye and soul. The waterfall makes for amazing photos.

On modern maps, the Nara River originates from Lake Poletskoye, but on the geographical map of the Moscow province of 1774, the lake has a completely different name - Polesnoye. But we will not dwell on this, we will only take note that it was formed, like most of the natural lakes of the Moscow region, most likely during the Ice Age. From this period of time, perhaps, the beginning of the life of the river should be counted.
But at the same time, it is difficult to imagine that once an endless snowy plain stretched here, and there was not a single living soul around. This was believed only until a certain time, until archaeologists in 1980 in Zaraysk, on the banks of the Osetr River, found one of the most ancient human sites of the Paleolithic period in the Moscow region. In its place, they found an accumulation of mammoth bones, which served as the main prey of the hunters of the Ice Age, hundreds of flint tools: chisels, knives, scrapers, including human remains. The age of this camp was not less than twenty thousand years. Another site, younger, of the Mesolithic era, intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic, was already found in the Dmitrovsky district. Thus, the territory of the present Moscow region, during the period when nature created its geographical relief, has already been actively developed by people since the Paleolithic.
When for the first time a person began to develop the banks of the Nara and its tributaries, even archaeologists cannot say with accuracy. But from the materials of the Naro-Fominsk Museum of Local Lore, one can learn about a small handful of mounds, burial grounds, settlements and settlements found on the territory of the Naro-Fominsk region. At the same time, local historians and lovers of antiquities found traces of primitive time on the banks of the river eroded by the current. During his lifetime, he spoke about these finds in a small book "Vereya and surroundings", published in 1971, by the history teacher of the Vereya secondary school, local historian Sergei Aleksandrovich Pospelov. And after it came another book by local historian Leonid Grigoryevich Drobyshevsky "On the banks of the Nara". In it, referring to the data of the Moscow Regional Museum of Local Lore, whose employees in 1949 examined the mountain Gromovaya Gora in Naro-Fominsk, he described the settlement they discovered on its top, surrounded by an earthen rampart with a strong wooden fence, a deep ditch was dug around. In addition, mesh ceramics with ornaments were also found there. But Leonid Grigoryevich did not indicate the age of this find, saying only that it was very ancient. However, Natalya Khorosheva, in her article "Naro-Fominsk is 79 Years Old", published in the newspaper "Osnova", writes: "Excavations at the Fominsky settlement (1939 and 1948) showed that there was a settlement here as early as the 12th century."
It is known from history that even before the settlement in the southwestern and southern part of the Moscow region of the Slavic tribe of the Vyatichi, the peoples of the Finno-Ugric group lived here. Some historians and local historians believe that these peoples left a memory of themselves in the names of the rivers near Moscow. The current generation is familiar with their names: Moscow, Protva, Isterva, Istra, Nara, Pakhra, Oka and so on. But to give an exact explanation of these names is still unsuccessful. Perhaps, except for the Oka, which is translated from Finnish as "yokki" - a river. At the same time, many scientists believe that the Moscow River, Protva, Isterva, Istra, Pakhra, Nara and a number of other rivers of the Moscow region, which have the characteristic endings "va" and "ra", the so-called hydronyms, also originated from the Finno-Ugric languages . In modern language, these hydronyms mean "water", "river". But there are also such researchers who reject their origin from these languages, including the Nara River. At the same time, they believe that the river got its name under the Slavs, that is, the Vyatichi, and means "loop", "river bend". However, the name of Protva is also deciphered in the same way. Others believe that Nara got its name from the beaver fishery carried out on it, hence the name "beaver river". The author of these lines had to hear that Nara got its name during the period of the Tatar-Mongol invasion. Following its channel to the upper stream, their mounted warriors fell through the ice and perished. Hence they called it "deep river". It is curious whether the Tatars influenced the disappearance of the settlement on Gromova Gora?
One of the versions of the name of the river was put forward by Vladimir Kozlov in his book "Where did the Naro-Fominsk land come from", linking the name with the name of the ancient Armenian goddess of water, seas, rains, rivers, springs - Nar. But, on the other hand, it is absolutely incredible how the ancient Armenian goddess can be related to the Nara River near Moscow? Moreover, Nar is the goddess of fertility and motherhood. And the ancient Armenian goddess of water, sea and rain was called Tsovinar or Tsovyan. I had to work a lot with historical literature on this version, and it led me into deep antiquity, from the Vyatichi to the Wends, and from them to the Aryans. But this is another fascinating story, from which it follows that the Eastern Slavs, and in particular the Vyatichi, are much closer to the Aryan race than the same Germans, praised by Hitler's propaganda.

Valery Ipatov