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unusual facts about Dnieper–Bug Canal


Dnieper–Bug Canal

The waterways from the German-Polish border (Oder River, through the Warta, Brda and Noteć rivers, Bydgoszcz Canal, Vistula River, Narew River, Bug River) once used to link the Belarus and Ukrainian inland waterways via Mukhavets River, Dnieper–Bug Canal, Pripyat River and Dnieper River), thus connecting north-western Europe with the Black Sea.


A Terrible Vengeance

Danilo and Katerina discuss the sorcerer in a boat, paddled by two men, on their way home across the Dnieper.

Adrian Kashchenko

At stories "Z Dnipra na Dunai" ("From Dnieper to Dunai"), "Zruinovane gnizdo" ("Ruined nest") where he attempted to show the negative aspects following the break-up of the Zaporozhian Host.

Armenians in Crimea

From 1778-1779, more than 22,000 Armenians resettled in the Azov province and on the coast of the Dnieper and Samara, leading to gradual economic decline.

Babruysk fortress

In 1810, Tsar Alexander I sent out his military engineer Teodor Narbutt to find a site suitable for building a fortress somewhere on the Dnieper, between Mogilev and Rogachev in order to prepare for the looming threat in Western Europe.

Battle of the Dnieper

The first would be to give themselves time to regroup their forces, find a weak point or two to exploit (not necessarily in the lower part of the Dnieper), stage a breakthrough and encircle the German defenders, rendering the defence line next to useless (very much like the German Panzers bypassed the Maginot line in 1940).

Big-scale sand smelt

In the Black Sea, it is widespread along all coasts, in lagoons and estuaries, in the downstreams of rivers Danube, Dniester, Southern Bug, Inhulets, andDnieper, with a permanent population is in the Kakhovka Reservoir.

Chernihiv Oblast

The oblast is bisected into northern and southern sections by the Desna River, which enters the Dnieper just north of the Kiev city limits.

Fall of Berlin – 1945

The narrator lists the names of the rivers that the Red Army crosses as they march west: Volga, Don, Desna, Dnieper, Bug, Dvina, Neman, Vistula, and finally, Oder.

History of Poland in the Middle Ages

Results of a genetic study by researchers from Gdańsk Medical University "support hypothesis placing the earliest known homeland of Slavs in the middle Dnieper basin".

Jacob Hoeppner

They departed in the fall of 1786, sailing first to Riga, then travelling cross country, arriving at the Dnieper in late November.

Jan Ludwik Popławski

The country between the Oder and the Dnieper, between the Baltic and the Carpathians and the Black Sea, stands as a separate organic whole, a cohesive unity of territorial conditions, economic interests, and finally historical tradition.

Kiev Oblast

The municipality of Slavutych is located within the borders of the neighboring Chernihiv Oblast on the eastern bank of the Dnieper river and the municipality has no common border with the Kyiv Oblast.

Kobeliaky Raion

Important rivers within the Kobeliatskyi Raion include the Dnieper and Vorskla rivers.

Livoberezhna

Left-bank Ukraine, a historic name of the part of Ukraine on the left (East) bank of the Dnieper River.

McDonnell XF-85 Goblin

After that attack, the squadron, based in the Crimea, carried out a tactical attack on a bridge over the river Dnieper at Zaporozhye, which had been captured by advancing German troops.

Michel Peissel

In 1988, having built a replica of a Viking long boat, Peissel and a crew of six rowed and sailed up the river Dvina and down the Dnieper 2400 km across the Soviet Union, from the Baltic to the Black Sea; an expedition meant to recreate that of the Varangians, the founding fathers of the Russian monarchy in the 8th century.

Middle Dnieper culture

It has been argued that the area where the Middle Dnieper culture is situated would have provided a better migration route for steppe tribes along the Pripyat tributary of the Dnieper and perhaps provided the cultural bridge between Yamna and Corded Ware cultures.

Mihail Lascăr

From there, Lascăr and his unit swung East, crossing the rivers Dniester, Bug, and Dnieper.

Mogilev Region

Many rivers flow through the Mahilyow Voblast including the Dnieper (Dniapro), Berezina, Sozh, Druts, Pronya and Ptsich.

Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns

Seated marble figures decorate the base of each column each representing the major rivers of Russia — the Volga and Dnieper at the northern Rostral Column, Neva and Volkhov at the southern one.

Polesian Lowland

Polesian Lowland is a lowland in the southwestern portion of the East European Plain in basin of such rivers as Dnieper, Prypiat, Desna and stretches along the Belarus-Ukraine border.

Tiasmyn River

The Tiasmyn originates in the north central part of the Dnieper hills in the central Ukrainian province of Kirovohrad.

Ukrainian Sea Guard

The Sea Guard operates four sea guard detachments: in Balaklava, Odessa, Izmail, and Kerch; a sea guard cutters division in Mariupol; a special-purpose sea guard cutters division in Yalta; and riverine Dnieper sea guard cutters division in Kiev.


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