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The estuary was a naval battleground in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792.A key event in that war was the Siege of Ochakov, while naval battles – which involved the Russian Dnieper Flotilla, [1] John Paul Jones' deep-water fleet [2] [3] and the Ottoman Navy – included the First Battle of the Liman on June 7, 1788 and the Second Battle of the Liman on June 16 and 17.
Dnieper→ Dnieper–Bug estuary→ Black Sea The Myareya ( Belarusian : Мярэя ), alternative transliteration Miareja , [ 1 ] or Mereya ( Russian : Мерея ) is a river in Belarus and Russia .
The river is named as Bog Fl[uss] on this 1791 German map. The river is named as Bog on this 1788 French map showing the Dnieper–Bug estuary (Liman). The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh [1] (Ukrainian: Південний Буг, romanized: Pivdennyi Buh; Russian: Южный Буг, romanized: Yuzhny Bug; Romanian: Bugul de Sud or just Bug), [1] and sometimes Boh River (Ukrainian ...
In the southwest, the catchment area of the Dnieper borders on the Southern Bug Basin, [4] which attaches laterally to the catchment area of the Dnieper. To the west is a small border with the Dniester Basin, as well as the Vistula Basin. In the northwest, the Dnieper River basin borders the Neman Basin and the Daugava Basin.
The Bug or Western Bug [a] is a major river in Central Europe that flows through Belarus (border), Poland, and Ukraine, with a total length of 774 kilometres (481 mi). [1] A tributary of the Narew, the Bug forms part of the border between Belarus and Poland for 178 kilometres (111 mi) and part of the border between Ukraine and Poland for 185 kilometres (115 mi).
The Dnieper–Bug Canal after several enlargements still provides a convenient inland waterway. Until the 18th century there was a portage between Kobrin and Pinsk as it was a part of the important long-distance trade route from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea .
The Bug estuary (Ukrainian: Бузький лиман, romanized: Buz'kyi lyman) is an estuary of the Southern Bug. It is 82 kilometres (51 mi) long and up to 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) wide. Together with the Dnieper estuary it makes the Dnieper–Bug estuary on the northern coast of the Black Sea. The city of Mykolaiv is located on the Bug estuary.
Within Ukraine it flows through the Dnieper Lowland, passing through Sumy Oblast, and then crossing Poltava Oblast. It has a length of 464 kilometres (288 mi), and a basin area of 14,700 square kilometres (5,700 sq mi). [1] The river is the 15th longest in Ukraine stretching for 348 kilometres (216 mi).