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The '''Uy River''' ({{lang-ru|Уй}}, {{lang-ba|Уй}}) is a [[river]] in [[Chelyabinsk Oblast]] in [[Russia]] with its upper reaches in [[Bashkortostan|Bashkiria]]. It partially flows along the borders of Chelyabinsk and [[Kurgan Oblast]]s with [[Kazakhstan]]. The Uy is a left tributary of the [[Tobol River]]. The length of the river is 462&nbsp;km. The area of its basin is 34,400&nbsp;km². It freezes up in November and stays icebound in April. The town of [[Troitsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast|Troitsk]] and three [[reservoir]]s (the largest being [[Troitsk Reservoir]]) are situated on the Uy River.

It rises in the southern [[Ural Mountains]] east of the headwaters of the [[Ural River]] between [[Chelyabinsk]] and [[Magnitogorsk]] and flows east with many meanders past [[Troitsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast]] to meet the [[Tobol River]] near Zverinogolovskoye (formerly the fort of Ust-Uysk). The gold-mining town of [[Plast (town)]] is on its headwaters. At the time of the [[Bashkirs|Bashkir War of 1735-40]] it was the eastern end of the Orenburg Line of forts and is now approximately part of the border between Russia and Kazakhstan. The Uy is the southernmost river on the east side of the Urals whose waters ultimately reach the Arctic Ocean. South of the Uy waters run to the Ural River which flows south into the Caspian Sea.

The name of the river comes from the [[Bashkir language]], in which it means "valley, lowland".

== References ==
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[[Category:Rivers of Chelyabinsk Oblast]]
[[Category:Rivers of Bashkortostan]]
[[Category:Rivers of Kurgan Oblast]]
[[Category:Rivers of Kazakhstan]]


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