The Kur (Russian: Кур) is a river in central Russia. It flows through the city of Kursk, where it falls into the Tuskar River (Russian: Тускарь), which then falls into the Seym. The name is related to a dialect word kur'ya 'long and narrow river bay,' which itself may be a borrowing from Komi kurya 'bay' (although it has been suggested that the latter is borrowed from Russian).
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“Sitting in that dusky wilderness, under that dark mountain, by the bright river which was full of reflected light, still I heard the wood thrush sing, as if no higher civilization could be attained. By this time the night was upon us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)