Sozh
Sozh in Gomel, Belarus
Origin	Russia
Mouth	Dnieper
Basin countries	Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
Length	648 km (403 mi)
Source elevation
Avg. discharge	In Gomel: 207 m³/s (7,310 ft³/s)
Basin area	42,100 km² (16,255 mi²)

Sozh (Belarusian: Сож, IPA: [sɔʐ]; Russian: Сож) is a river in Belarus and Russia, a left tributary of the Dnieper river. It is 648 km in length. Sozh flows through Gomel, second largest city in Belarus. The river is crossed by the Sozh Floating Bridge at Korma and an elegant steel arch at Gomel, which is featured on a national stamp.[1]

The name was formerly Sozh' (Russian: Сожь), from Old East Slavic Съжь; suggested Baltic and Finnic etymologies are unsatisfactory, and V.A. Zhuchkevich has proposed that it is derived from Old Russian/Old Belarusian sozhzh' (сожжь) 'burned parts of a forest prepared for plowing,' which has parallels in other place names.^[1]

Contents 1 Notes 2 Maps 3 Gallery 4 External links

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1. ^ E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskiya nazvaniya mira (Moskva, 1998), p. 390.

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Van crossing Sozh River on the new pontoon-bridge near Korma, Belarus

Bluff of the Sozh River (Сож) in eastern Belarus

The Sozh River in eastern Belarus

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