The Tuloma ( Russian : Тулома , romanized : Tuloma , Skolt Sami : Tuållâmjokk , Northern Sami : Doallánjohka and Finnish : Tuulomajoki ) is a river in Murmansk Oblast in Russia . With a drainage basin of 21,500 square kilometres (8,300 sq mi) and an average discharge at 255 m /s, the Tuloma is one of the biggest rivers in northern Fennoscandia .
7-481: Tuloma may refer to: Tuloma (river) , a river in Murmansk Oblast, Russia Tuloma (rural locality) , a rural locality (a selo ) in Murmansk Oblast, Russia [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
14-564: A large weir, and every year tens of tons of salmon was caught at this site alone. When hydro power plants were built the salmon spawning grounds and migration routes were destroyed. At the first power plant, the Lower Tuloma, a fish ladder was built. Within a few years salmon catches soon approached their former levels. When the Upper Tuloma plant and a dam at Verkhnetulomskiy were built the salmon stock collapsed. Lake Notozero became part of
21-819: The Saariselkä mountains in the eastern parts of the Lapland region in Finland . The Tuloma itself is formed by the confluence of the rivers Lotta and Nota rivers in the Verkhnetulomskoye Reservoir (formerly Lake Notozero ). Its outflow is in the Kola Bay , at the confluence with the river Kola and 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Murmansk in the Kola Peninsula in Russia . There are two hydroelectric power stations on
28-526: The Tuloma. The Lower Tuloma was finished in 1938, and is located at the town of Murmashi , close to the rivers outflow into the Kola Bay. The dam raised the river by 19 metres (62 ft), and the resulting reservoir was 60 kilometres (37 mi) long. The second and largest power plant, the Upper Tuloma, was built in the 1960s at Verkhnetulomsky , 60 kilometres further upriver. A 62-metre (203 ft) high dam
35-559: The large Verkhnetulomskoye reservoir, and the Padun Falls was gone. A fish lift was built at the dam, but it did not work and was closed down after a short time. There remains, however, a small salmon stock in the Toluma, spawning in the tributaries below the dam, especially in the Pecha . (tuulomajoki.fi) There is a project under way to ascertain whether it is possible to reestablish the salmon to
42-401: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tuloma&oldid=959587300 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tuloma (river) The river has its sources in
49-531: Was constructed below the outflow from Lake Notozero, forming the large Verkhnetulomskoye Reservoir 85 kilometres (53 mi) long and up to 20 kilometres (12 mi) wide. The Tuloma used to be a great salmon river, on a par with the famous Tana River in Norway in productivity, with annual catches in excess of 100 tons. At Padun Falls at the outflow from Lake Notozero the Skolt Sami had rights to catch salmon in
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