Malyy Uran

The Maly Uran and the neighboring Bolshoy Uran flow roughly parallel across the country of the Obshchy Syrt, joining the Samara from the right. The Little Uran enters the Samara downstream from the Great Uran, although it is the longer of the two rivers. In the eighteenth century this was frontier country: the Russian fortress of Sorochinskaya was begun on the Samara in 1736, and Yemelyan Pugachev occupied it during his rebellion in 1773.