The Klyazma (, Klyaz'ma or Kliazma), a river in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, and a left tributary of the Oka.

The long river's drainage basin is .

  • Ucha (left)
  • Vorya (left)
  • Sherna (left)
  • Kirzhach (left)
  • Peksha (left)
  • Polya (right)
  • Koloksha (left)
  • Nerl (left)
  • Sudogda (right)
  • Nerekhta (right)
  • Uvod (left)
  • Teza (left)
  • Lukh (left)
  • Suvoroshch (right)

The Klyazma is navigable within from its estuary and in the area of the Klyazminskoye Reservoir. The cities of Gorokhovets, Mendeleyevo, Pavlovsky Posad, Vladimir, Kovrov, Shchyolkovo, Losino-Petrovsky, Noginsk, Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Sobinka and Vyazniki stand on the shores of the Klyazma River.

The basin of the Klyazma formed the center of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality in the 12th to 14th centuries CE.

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