PECHORA RIVER

'Pechora' (; Komi: ; Nenets: Санэроˮ яха) is a major river in European Russia (Komi Republic and Nenets Autonomous Okrug). It is 1,809 km long.
The river rises in the Ural Mountains in the south-eastern corner of the Komi Republic, and flows north or north-west through Yaksha, Ust-Ilych, Troitsko-Pechorsk, Vuktyl, Pechora, and Naryan-Mar before entering the Pechora Bay inlet of the Pechora Sea at Nosovaya. The headwaters of the Pechora and its tributary the Ilych are a protected natural area, the Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve.