List of rivers of Ukraine
This is a list of the major rivers that flow through Ukraine.
Ukraine has around 23,000 rivers. The most notable rivers of Ukraine include: Dnieper, Dniester, Southern Buh, and Siversky Donets. The longest river is Dnieper, the longest tributary is the Dnieper's tributary Desna. Two of the Danube's tributaries in Ukraine Prut and Tysa are longer than the main river within Ukraine.
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List of major rivers in Ukraine
Listed are rivers over 150 km (93 mi) long. Length is in kilometers.
Name | Length (total) | Drainage area | Basin | Notes |
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Dnieper | 981 (2201) | 291,400 | Dnieper-Bug Estuary | |
Southern Buh | 806 (806) | 63,700 | Dnieper-Bug Estuary | |
Dniester | 705 (1362) | 72,100 | Black Sea | |
Siversky Donets | 672 (1053) | 98,900 | Don | |
Desna | 591 (1130) | 88,900 | Dnieper | |
Horyn | 577 (659)[1] | 27,010[1] | Prypiat | |
Inhulets | 549 (549) | 14,870 | Dnieper | |
Psel | 526 (717) | 22,800 | Dnieper | |
Sluch | 451 (451) | 13,800 | Horyn | |
Styr | 445 (494) | 13,100 | Prypiat | |
Western Bug | 401 (831) | 73,500 | Narew [Narva] | |
Teteriv | 385 (385) | 15,300 | Dnieper | |
Sula | 365 (365) | 19,600 | Dnieper | |
Inhul | 354 (354) | 9,890 | Southern Buh | |
Vorskla | 348 (464) | 14,700 | Dnieper | |
Ros | 346 (346) | 12,600 | Dnieper | |
Oril | 346 (346)[2] | 9,800[2] | Dnieper | |
Udai | 327 (327)[2] | 7,030[2] | Sula | |
Vovcha | 323 (323)[2] | 13,300[2] | Samara | |
Samara | 320 (320) | 22,600 | Dnieper | |
Khorol | 308 (308)[2] | 3,870[2] | Psel | |
Prut | 272 (967) | 27,500 | Danube | |
Prypiat | 261 (761) | 121,000 | Dnieper | |
Uzh | 256 (256)[2] | 8,080[2] | Prypiat | |
Zbruch | 244 (244) | 3,400 | Dniester | |
Seret | 242 (242) | 3,900[3] | Dniester | |
Stryi | 232 (232) | 3,060[4] | Dniester | |
Seim | 222 (748)[5] | 27,500 | Desna | |
Aidar | 213 (264)[6] | 7,420 | Siversky Donets | |
Kalmius | 209 (209)[2] | 5,070[2] | Sea of Azov | |
Salhir | 204 (204)[7] | 3,750[7] | Syvash | |
Tysa | 201 (966) | 11,300[2] | Danube | |
Vysun | 201 (201)[2] | 2,670[2] | Inhulets | |
Oster | 199 (201)[2] | 2,950[2] | Desna | |
Luhan | 198 (198)[2] | 3,740[2] | Siversky Donets | |
Molochna | 197 (197)[2] | 3,450[2] | Sea of Azov | |
Snov | 190 (253)[2] | Desna | ||
Stokhid | 188 (188)[2] | 3,150[2] | Prypiat | |
Turia | 184 (184)[2] | 2,800[2] | Prypiat | |
Oskil | 177 (472)[2] | Siversky Donets | ||
Danube | 174 (2900)[2] | Black Sea | ||
Ubort | 171 (292)[2] | Prypiat | ||
Krynka | 170 (180)[2] | Mius River | ||
Smotrych | 168 (168)[2] | 1,800[2] | Dniester | |
Hirsky Tikych | 167 (167)[2] | 3,510[2] | Hnylyi Tikych | |
Velyka Vys | 166 (166)[2] | 2,860[2] | Synyukha | |
Murafa | 163 (163)[2] | 2,410[2] | Dniester | |
Irpin | 162 (162)[2] | 3,340[2] | Dnieper | |
Tiasmyn | 160 (160)[2] | 4,540[2] | Dnieper | |
Bazavluk | 157 (157)[2] | 4,200[2] | Dnieper | |
Hnylyi Tikych | 157 (157)[2] | 3,150[2] | Synyukha | |
Ikva | 156 (156)[2] | 2,250[2] | Styr | |
Chychyklia | 156 (156)[2] | 2,120[2] | Southern Buh | |
Tylihul | 154 (154)[2] | 3,300[2] | Black Sea | |
Derkul | 153 (163)[2] | Siversky Donets | ||
Stvyha | 152 (152)[2] | 5,440[2] | Prypiat | |
Velykyi Kuyalnyk | 150 (150)[2] | 1,860[2] | Black Sea |
- Black Sea basin
- Dnieper's tributaries
- Southern Buh's tributaries
- Dniester's tributaries
- Danube's tributaries
- Black Sea estuaries' tributaries
- Sea of Azov basin
- Siversky Donets' tributaries
- Kalmius's tributaries
- Salhir's tributaries
- Mius' tributaries
- Baltic Sea basin
- Western Bug's tributaries
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Trivia
The most water in Ukraine is carried by Dnieper. Its annual drainage volume is 52.42 km3 (12.58 cu mi). The only other river that has higher drainage volume is the Danube which running through the Central Europe within Ukraine stretches only for 174 km (108 mi). The average annual drainage of the Danube is around 123 km3 (30 cu mi).
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.
The biggest river delta in Ukraine belongs to Dnieper and has area of 350 km2 (140 sq mi), while the Danube Delta within Ukraine is only 120 km2 (46 sq mi).
See also
- Waterfalls of Ukraine
- List of rivers of Europe
- Category:Rivers of Ukraine
References
- 1 2 Chapter 3. Quantitative characteristics of surface waters
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 Division of the small rivers amount in basin of major river of Ukraine
- ↑ Seret at Yandex
- ↑ Stryi at Yandex
- ↑ Rivers, lakes, and swamps of the Chernihiv land
- ↑ Ecological passport of the Luhansk Oblast
- 1 2 Salhir at Yandex
Further reading
(Copies of the works are available at the Electronic library "Chtyvo")
- Shvets, H., Drozd, N., Levchenko, S. Catalog of rivers of the Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv: "Publishing of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR", 1957.
- Klymenko, V. Hydrology of Ukraine. Kharkiv: "Karazin National University publishing", 2010.
External links
- Electronic library "Chtyvo"
- Rivers of Ukraine suitable for Rafting
- Matsenko, H. Book of records of Ukraine. Nature around us. "Bohdan Books". ISBN 9789667520571