Sit (river)
title: "Sit (river)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["rivers-of-yaroslavl-oblast", "rivers-of-tver-oblast"] topic_path: "general/rivers-of-yaroslavl-oblast" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit_(river)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Sit |
| name_native | ru |
| image | Стела. д. Лопатино.jpg |
| image_size | 200px |
| image_caption | The memorial on the Sit' battlefield |
| map | Rybinsk vdhr eng.svg |
| map_caption | Map of the Rybinsk Reservoir basin. The Sit is shown on the map. |
| subdivision_type1 | Country |
| subdivision_name1 | Russia |
| length | 113 km |
| mouth | Rybinsk Reservoir |
| mouth_coordinates | |
| progression | Rybinsk Reservoir→ |
| basin_size | 2370 km2 |
| :: |
| name = Sit | name_native = ru | image = Стела. д. Лопатино.jpg | image_size = 200px | image_caption = The memorial on the Sit' battlefield | map = Rybinsk vdhr eng.svg | map_caption = Map of the Rybinsk Reservoir basin. The Sit is shown on the map. | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Russia | length = 113 km | source1_location = | source1_elevation = | source1_coordinates = | mouth = Rybinsk Reservoir | mouth_location = | mouth_coordinates = | discharge1_avg = | progression = Rybinsk Reservoir→ | basin_size = 2370 km2 | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = The Sit () is a tributary of the Rybinsk Reservoir (nominally, of the Mologa, into which the Sit used to flow before the reservoir was filled). The river flows for 159 km through Sonkovsky District of Tver Oblast and Nekouzsky and Breytovsky Districts of Yaroslavl Oblasts of Russia before entering the Rybinsk Reservoir near the large village of Breitovo. Its average width varies from 40 to The river mouth is about 1500 m wide. The drainage basin occupies some 1900 km2. The river is 159 km long.
The name of river is associated with the bloody Battle of the Sit River (1238). In the Middle Ages the valley of the Sit belonged to a branch of the princely House of Yaroslavl. The princes of the Sit', or Sitsky, joined the service of the Grand Dukes of Muscovy in the 15th century. The family survived into the 17th century and was closely related by blood to the Romanovs.
The source of the Sit is in the north of Sonkovsky District, close to the village of Saburovo. The river flows northeast, enters Yaroslavl Oblast, and turns south. By the selo of Voznesenskoye it turns east and eventually north. The mouth of the Sit is in the selo of Breytovo.
The drainage basin of the Sit includes the eastern part of Krasnokholmsky District of Tver Oblast, the eastern part of Sonkovsky District, the western part of Nekouzsky District, and some areas in Breytovsky District. The district centers Sonkovo and Breytovo lie in the drainage basin of the Sit.
In the early 20th century the valley of the Sit River was home to the Sitskari (ru), an ethnic group of short fair-haired people speaking a Northern dialect of the Russian language. It is thought that they had a mixture of Lithuanian or some other Baltic ancestry.
References
References
- [http://bse.sci-lib.com/article102677.html Great Soviet Encyclopaedia]
- link. State Water Register of Russia
- [http://www.biografija.ru/show_bio.aspx?id=118380 Russian Biographical Dictionary]
- [http://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/rus/sian/6.htm Институт этнологии и антропологии РАН: Этнографические группы русского народа]
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