Sokoch (river) explained

Sokoch
Pushpin Map:Russia Kamchatka Krai
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:Russia
Subdivision Type2:Federal subject
Subdivision Name2:Kamchatka Krai
Subdivision Type3:District
Subdivision Name3:Yelizovsky District,
Ust-Bolsheretsky District
Length:22km (14miles)
Mouth:Plotnikova
Mouth Location:Sokoch
Progression:PlotnikovaBolshayaSea of Okhotsk
Basin Size:99.5km2

The Sokoch (Russian: Сокоч) is a river in the western Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, a right tributary of the Plotnikova.

Course

The Sokoch, including its main branch the Right Sokoch, is long, and drains an area of . It has one tributary, the Left Sokoch, which joins it from its mouth.The right branch of the river flows from the Bolshoi (Large) Sokoch lake, while the left branch flows from the southeastern spurs of the Sokoch Hill.Lake Sokoch is in what was a proglacial basin between two terminal moraines from the Last Glacial Maximum.Analysis of pollen from the lake sediments over the last 9600 years shows alternating warmer periods of forest cover and cooler periods of shubrlands, tundra and bogs.

The Sokoch enters the Plotnikova from the right at from the Plotnikova's mouth.The village of Sokoch is the administrative center of the Nachikinskoe rural settlement.It was formed in 1947 as a settlement under the Nachikinsky state farm on the Plotnikova River opposite the mouth of the Sokoch River, and named after the river in 1959.

Fish

The Sokoch is known for its sockeye salmon, which spawn in the upper river above the Sokoch Lake, and in the springs that the upper river and the lake, and in the Little Sokosh Lake upstream from the main lake.Lakeshore spawning is important in the Kamchatka Peninsula, but the Bolhsaya River system has relatively few lakes. Nachikinsky Lake is important, as is the Sokoch lake area.