Kur (Kursk Oblast)

For other uses, see Kur River (disambiguation).

The Kur (Russian: Кур) is a river in central Russia. It flows through the city of Kursk, where it falls into the Tuskar, which then falls into the Seym. The name relates to a dialect word kur'ya ("long and narrow river bay"),^[1] which itself may represent a borrowing from Komi kurya 'bay' (although it has been suggested that the latter is borrowed from Russian).^[2]

Kur
The mouth of Kur
Native name	Кур (Russian)
Location
Country	Russia
Physical characteristics
Mouth	Tuskar
• location	Kursk
• coordinates	51°43′22″N 36°11′29″E
Basin features
Progression	Tuskar→ Seym→ Desna→ Dnieper→ Dnieper–Bug estuary→ Black Sea

References

1. E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (Moscow, 1998), p. 232.
2. Max Vasmer, Etimologicheskii slovar' russkogo yazyka, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1967), p. 431.

External links

• Kommersant.com description of Kursk Oblast Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Tuskar River on Kursk Encyclopedia (in Russian)