Ilet River

Elnet, Ilet, İllät River
River Ilet in the Republic of Mari El
Country	Mari El and Tatarstan, Russia
Basin
Main source	Mari El
River mouth	Kuybyshev Reservoir, Volga 53 m (174 ft)
Basin size	6,471 km² (2,498 sq mi)
Physical characteristics
Length	204 km (127 mi)
Discharge	Average rate: 1,180 m³/s (42,000 cu ft/s) (near mouth)

Ilet (Mari: Элнет, Elnet, Russian: Илеть, Ilet, Tatar: Cyrillic Илләт, Latin İllät) is a river in Mari El, Russia. Major tributaries are the Ashit, Yushut, Voncha and Petyalka. Minimum mineralization is 1000–1400 mg/l. Tourism and rafting are popular.

Volga River

Tributaries	Selizharovka Vazuza Tvertsa Shosha Dubna Medveditsa Nerl Kashinka Sit Mologa Suda Sheksna Sogozha Kotorosl Kostroma Nyomda Unzha Uzola Oka Kudma Kerzhenets Sura Vetluga Rutka Tsivil Great Kokshaga Little Kokshaga Anish Ilet Sviyaga Sumka Kazanka Kama Aktay Bezdna Cheremshan Sok Samara Chapayevka Little Irgiz Irgiz Tereshka Yeruslan Akhtuba (distributary)

Reservoirs	Lake Volgo Ivankovo Uglich Rybinsk Gorky Cheboksary Kuybyshev Saratov Volgograd

Hydroelectric stations	Ivankovo Uglich Rybinsk Nizhny Novgorod Cheboksary Zhiguli Saratov Volga

Canals	Moscow Canal Volga–Baltic Waterway Volga–Don Canal

Cities	Astrakhan Volgograd Saratov Samara Kazan Ulyanovsk Nizhny Novgorod Yaroslavl Tver

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