Urukh River, known as Kharves in its upper reaches (Russian: Урух, Ossetian: Æрæф, Æræf, Digor: Ирæф, Iræf), is a river in North Ossetia–Alania and Kabardino-Balkaria (Russia), a left tributary of the Terek River. The length of the Urukh is 104 km, the area of its drainage basin is 1280 km². The Urukh originates in the glaciers of the Greater Caucasus.