Russia can be divided into a European and an Asian part. The dividing line is generally considered to be the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea. The Asian part is drained into the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are the Volga, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dniepr and the Western Dvina.

In Asia, important rivers are the Ob, Irtysh, Yenisei, Angara, Lena, Amur, Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma.

In the list below the rivers are grouped by the seas or oceans they flow into. Rivers that flow into other rivers are ordered by the proximity of their point of confluence to the mouth of the main river, i.e. the lower in the list, the more upstream.

There is an alphabetical list of rivers at the end of this article. See also Category:Russian rivers.

Barents Sea and White Sea (Arctic Ocean)

The rivers in this section are sorted east to west.

• Pechora (north-east of Naryan-Mar)

• Northern Dvina (in Severodvinsk)
  • Pinega (in Ust-Pinega )
  • Yemtsa (near Bolshaya Gora )
  • Vaga (near Bereznik )
  • Uftyuga (near Krasnoborsk )
  • Vychegda (in Kotlas )
    • Vishera
  • Yug (in Veliki Ustyug )
  • Sukhona (in Veliki Ustyug )

• Mezen (near Mezen)

• Onega (in Onega)

Baltic Sea

The rivers in this section are sorted south-west to north-east.

• Pregolya (near Kaliningrad)
  • Lava/Łyna (in Znamensk )
  • Instruch /Inster (in Chernyakhovsk)
  • Angrapa (in Chernyakhovsk)
    • Pissa (near Chernyakhovsk)
    • Krasnaya (in Gusev)

• Nemunas/Neman (near Šilutė , Lithuania)
  • Šešupė (near Neman)

• Daugava/Western Dvina (near Riga, Latvia)
  • Polota (in Polatsk, Belarus)

• Narva (near Narva)
  • Velikaya (to Lake Peipsi near Pskov)

• Neva (in Saint Petersburg)
  • Izhora (in Ust-Izhora)
  • Vuoksi (to Lake Ladoga in Taipale and Priozersk)
  • Volkhov (to Lake Ladoga near Volkhov)
  • Svir (to Lake Ladoga near Lodeynoye Pole )

Black Sea

The rivers in this section are sorted west to east.

• Dnieper/Dnipro (near Kherson, Ukraine)
  • Desna (in Kyiv, Ukraine)
    • Seim (in Sosnytsia , Ukraine)
    • Sudost (north of Novhorod-Sivers'kyi , Ukraine)

• Mius (into Sea of Azov near Taganrog)

• Don (into Sea of Azov near Azov)
  • Manych (in Manychskaya , east of Rostov-on-Don)
  • Sal (in Semikarakorsk )
  • Donets (near Semikarakorsk )
  • Voronezh (near Voronezh)

• Kuban (into Sea of Azov near Temryuk )

Caspian Sea

The rivers in this section are sorted west to east.

• Terek (near Kizlyar)

• Volga (near Astrakhan)
  • Samara (in Samara)
  • Kama (south of Kazan)
    • Vyatka (near Nizhnekamsk )
      • Cheptsa (near Kirov)
    • Belaya (near Neftekamsk )
      • Ufa (in Ufa)
    • Chusovaya (near Perm)
      • Sylva (near Perm)
    • Vishera (near Solikamsk )
  • Kazanka (in Kazan)
  • Sviyaga (west of Kazan)
  • Vetluga (near Kozmodemyansk )
  • Sura (in Vasilsursk )
  • Oka (in Nizhny Novgorod)
    • Klyazma (in Gorbatov )
    • Moksha (near Yelatma )
      • Tsna (near Sasovo )
    • Moskva (in Kolomna)
      • Pakhra (near Moscow)
      • Istra (near Moscow)
    • Ugra (near Kaluga)
    • Upa (near Suvorov )
  • Unzha (near Yuryevets )
  • Kostroma (in Kostroma)
  • Kotorosl (in Yaroslavl)
  • Sheksna (near Rybinsk)
  • Mologa (near Rybinsk)

• Ural (in Atyrau, Kazakhstan)

Arctic Ocean, east of Ural

The rivers in this section are sorted west to east.

• Ob (to Gulf of Ob)
  • Irtysh (near Khanty-Mansiysk)
    • Tobol (in Tobolsk)
      • Tura (80 km from Tyumen)
    • Ishim (in Ust-Ishim )
    • Om (in Omsk)
    • Tara in ((Tara)
    • Tevriz (in Ust-Tevriz )
  • Vakh (near Nizhnevartovsk)
  • Vasyugan (in Kargasok )
  • Ket (near Kolpashevo)
  • Chulym (in Ust-Chulym )
  • Tom (50 km from Tomsk)
  • Katun (in Biysk)
  • Biya (in Biysk)

• Nadym (into Gulf of Ob in Khorovaya )

• Pur (into Gulf of Taz in Ivay-Sale )

• Taz (into Gulf of Taz in Tazovsky )

• Pyasina (east of Gulf of Taz )

• Yenisei
  • Lower Tunguska (in Turukhansk )
  • Podkamennaya Tunguska (in Podkamennaya Tunguska)
  • Angara (in Strelka )
    • Oka (near Bratsk)
    • Bolshaya Belaya (near Usolye-Sibirskoye )
    • Selenga (into Lake Baikal near Kabansk )
      • Uda (in Ulan Ude)
  • Abakan (in Abakan)

• Khatanga (near Kozhevnikovo )
  • Kotuy (near Khatanga)
  • Kheta (near Khatanga)

• Anabar (at Khorgo )

• Olenyok (in Ust-Olenyok )

• Lena (near Tiksi)
  • Vilyuy (near Sangar )
  • Aldan (in Batamay )
    • Amga (in Ust-Amginskoye )
    • Maya (in Ust-Maya )
  • Olyokma
  • Vitim (in Vitim)

• Yana (in Nizhneyansk )

• Indigirka (near Tabor, Sakha )

• Kolyma (near Ambarchik )
  • Omolon (80 km upstream from Nizhnekolymsk )

Pacific Ocean/Sea of Okhotsk

The rivers in this section are sorted north to south.

• Anadyr (in Anadyr)

• Uda (in Chumikan )

• Amur (in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur)
  • Ussuri (in Khabarovsk)
  • Bureya (near Raychikhinsk )
  • Zeya (in Blagoveshchensk)
    • Selemdzha (50 km upstream from Svobodny )
    • Dep
  • Shilka
  • Argun

Alpabetical list

A - L

Abakan, Aldan, Amga , Amur, Anabar, Anadyr, Angara, Angrapa, Argun, Belaya, Biya, Bolshaya Belaya, Bureya, Cheptsa, Chulym, Chusovaya, Daugava/Western Dvina, Dep, Desna, Dnieper/Dnipro, Don, Donets, Indigirka, Instruch , Irtysh, Ishim, Istra, Izhora, Kama, Katun, Kazanka, Ket , Khatanga, Kheta , Klyazma, Kolyma, Kostroma, Kotorosl, Kotuy, Krasnaya , Kuban, Lava/Łyna, Lena, Lower Tunguska

M - S

Manych, Maya , Mezen, Mius, Moksha, Mologa, Moskva, Nadym , Narva, Nemunas/Neman, Neva, Northern Dvina, Ob, Oka, Olenyok, Olyokma, Om, Omolon , Onega , Pakhra, Pechora, Pinega , Pissa , Podkamennaya Tunguska, Polota, Pregolya, Pur , Pyasina , Sal, Samara, Seim , Selemdzha , Selenga, Šešupė, Sheksna, Shilka, Sudost , Sukhona, Sura, Svir, Sviyaga, Sylva

T - Z

Taz, Terek, Tobol, Tom', Tsna, Tura, Uda, Uda, Ufa, Uftyuga , Ugra, Unzha, Upa, Ural, Ussuri, Vaga , Vakh, Vasyugan, Velikaya, Vetluga, Vilyuy, Vishera, Vishera, Vitim, Volga, Volkhov, Voronezh, Vuoksi, Vyatka, Vychegda, Yana, Yemtsa , Yenisei, Yug, Zeya