Sozh River
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| Country | Belarus, Russia, Ukraine |
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| Main source | Russia |
| River mouth | Dnieper |
| Basin size | 42,140 km2 (16,270 sq mi) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Length | 648 km (403 mi) |
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Sozh (Belarusian: Сож, [sɔʐ]; Russian: Сож, Ukrainian: Сож, Polish: Soż) is an international river flowing in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. It is a left bank tributary of the Dnieper River. Sozh passes through Gomel, the second largest city in Belarus.
The river is crossed by the Sozh Floating Bridge at Korma and an elegant steel arch at Gomel, which is featured on a national stamp of 300 ruble value.
The original name was Sozh' (Russian: Сожь), from Old East Slavic Съжь. With the previously suggested Baltic and Finnic etymologies considered unsatisfactory, Vadim Andreevich Zhuchkevich proposed that the name is derived from Old Russian/Old Belarusian sozhzh' (сожжь) 'burned parts of a forest prepared for plowing,' which has parallels to other place names.
The Sozh River rises in Russia and is mostly snow fed. The river freezes over between November and early January. The ice thaws from late March or April. Pronia, on the right, and the Oster, Besed’, and Iput’, on the left are its main tributaries. It is one of the six tributaries longer than 500 km which join the Dnieper River – the third longest river (2,201 km) in Europe.
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