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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.
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.
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 ...
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The Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks was connected to other waterways of Eastern Europe, such as the Pripyat-Bug waterway leading to Western Europe, and the Volga trade route, which went down the Volga waterway to the Caspian Sea. Another offshoot was along the Dnieper and the Usyazh-Buk River towards Lukoml and Polotsk. [citation ...
The Dnieper-Bug Sea Commercial Port is a seaport located in Ukraine on the left bank of the Bug estuary [4] near the Rus' Spit, 10 miles south of the Mykolaiv Sea Commercial Port and 32 miles from the Black Sea.
Berezan was home to one of the earliest Greek colonies (possibly known as Borysthenes, after the Greek name of the Dnieper) in the northern Black Sea region.The island was first settled in the mid-7th century B.C. [2] and was largely abandoned by the end of the 5th century B.C., when Olbia became the dominant colony in the region. [3]
Dneprobugvodput is based in Pinsk. [4] As of 2015, Sergei Zubko was deputy director-general.. Extensive dredging is needed, to maintain channel depth.. Although Belarus has dedicated shipping companies, Dneprobugvodput has also attempted to operate river cruises; [5] it also operates hydroelectric stations, including one in Pinsk.