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The deepest river of Ukraine is Dniester. In its mid stream between Pyzhniv village and Mohyliv-Podilsky through the Dniester canyon (Podillia Upland) the river narrows to 1.5 km (0.93 mi) in width and deepens up to 10 m (33 ft). The biggest water amount among distributaries is carried by the Chilia branch.
It is the largest reservoir on the Dnieper river, with a length of 149 km, a width of 28 km, an area of 2,250 km 2, an average depth of six meters, and a volume of 13.5 km 3. The reservoir's water level is maintained by the dam of the Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Plant , built between 1954 and 1959.
The Lybid (Ukrainian: Либідь) is a small river in Kyiv, Ukraine. A right tributary of the Dnieper, it flows within the "Right Bank" (original) part of the city, just to the west of the historic center. The Lybid has played an important role in shaping Kyiv's urban design by aiding the city's drainage system.
The most prominent rivers in the catchment area are Dnieper with a length of 2,201 kilometres (1,368 mi) and Desna, with a length of 1,130 kilometres (700 mi). [5]Many small direct tributaries also exist, such as, in the Kyiv area, the Syrets (right bank) in the north of the city, the historically significant Lybid (right bank) passing west of the centre, and the Borshahivka (right bank) to ...
Today the river carries its name from its source confluence in Donaueschingen, Germany, to its discharge into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine. The river was known to the ancient Greeks as the Istros (Ἴστρος) [9] from a root possibly also encountered in the ancient name of the Dniester (Danaster in Latin, Tiras ...
The river valley is mostly trapezium-like with a width of up to 4 km and a depth of up to 60 meters. [3] At the upper stream it has a narrow winding channel that cuts through the Dnieper Upland , [ 5 ] and its rocky banks show granite and gneiss ; at the middle and lower stream after entering the Black Sea Lowland , [ 5 ] it widens up to 30 ...
The Kyiv Reservoir (Ukrainian: Київське водосховище, romanized: Kyivs’ke vodoskhovyshche), locally the Kyiv Sea, is a large water reservoir located on the Dnieper River in Ukraine. Named after the city of Kyiv, which lies to the south, it covers an area of 922 square kilometres (356 sq mi) within the Kyiv Oblast.
The Samara River flows from Samara Bay into the northern end of the reservoir near Dnipro. [1] The reservoir stretches 129 kilometres (80 mi) from there to the dam in Zaporizhzhia, and has a width of 3.2 km, a maximum width of 7 km, an average depth of 8 meters, a maximum depth of 53 meters, and a volume of 3.3 km 3 .