Khopyor
The Khopyor is a river in European Russia, the biggest left tributary of the river Don. It is long, with a watershed of. The mouth width is. The Khopyor is navigable up to from the mouth. The maximum discharge is ; the average discharge is, and the minimum discharge is.
Fish in the river include bream, zander, common roach, rudd, European chub, ide, bleak, catfish, pike, perch, asp and burbot.Tributaries
The largest tributaries of the Khopyor are, from source to mouth:
- Serdoba
- Vorona
- Savala
- Buzuluk
Towns
Towns on the Khopyor River in orographic sequence are:
- Balashov,
- Borisoglebsk
- Uryupinsk
- Novokhopyorsk
- Serafimovich.
Downstream from Borisoglebsk, is the Khopyor Nature Reserve, populated with protected beavers, wisents and Russian desman. It also has various protected flora including Iris tenuifloia.Cultural associations
In 1834, Mikhail Zagoskin published a collection of ghost stories entitled An Evening on the Khoper River.
According to legend, an oldman Hopper lived in these places of Penza Oblast. One day he went by steppe and saw 12 springs. The old man took a shovel and assembled all the springs in one big stream. On this stream oldman Hopper built a mill to grind grain for the peasants from nearby villages. Later the river was given the name of its creator.
The river gave its name to the Khoper-Invest company, infamous for its pyramid scheme fraud.
