The Klyazma (, Klyaz'ma), a river in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, forms a left tributary of the Oka.

The river has a length of . The area of its drainage basin is . The Klyazma usually freezes up in November and stays under the ice until mid-April, although in faster-moving stretches ice-free water occurs until the air temperature drops below .

Klyazma

The largest tributaries of the Klyazma include (from source to mouth):

Klyazma

Ucha (left) Vorya (left) Sherna (left) Kirzhach (left) Peksha (left) Polya (right) Koloksha (left) Nerl (left) Sudogda (right) Nerekhta (right) Uvod (left) Teza (left) Lukh (left) Suvoroshch (right)

Klyazma

The Klyazma is navigable within from its estuary and in the area of the Klyazminskoye Reservoir. The cities of Gorokhovets, Mendeleyevo, Pavlovsky Posad, Vladimir, Kovrov, Shchyolkovo, Losino-Petrovsky, Noginsk, Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Sobinka and Vyazniki stand on the shores of the Klyazma River.

The basin of the Klyazma formed the center of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality in the 12th to 14th centuries CE.

References

Rivers of Moscow Oblast

Rivers of Vladimir Oblast

Rivers of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Rivers of Ivanovo Oblast