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5 unusual facts about Dniester


Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina

Her unit crossed the Dniester estuary in rubber boats and climbed an enemy-held ridge.

Helena Kurcewiczówna

Bohun took the wounded girl to the ravine on the river Dniester in order to hid her.

Louis I of Hungary

After the serials of victories over the Tatars, the Hungarian sphere of influence stretched eastward as far as the Dniester.

Vasile Atanasiu

In this capacity he led the Corps in the military actions for the liberation of Bessarabia in the battle for the beachhead of Albiţa on the Prut River, and then in the advance to the Dniester at Tiraspol.

Voronezh radar

The previous generation of radar was known as the Daryal (after Darial Gorge), Volga (after Volga River) and Daugava (Daugava River) and the generation before the Dnepr (Dnieper River), and Dnestr (Dniester River).


Attacking Cavalryman Statue

Each of the pedestal's four sides had bronze bas-reliefs with images from the battles fought by the 2nd cavalry division at Prunaru, Măgheruș, the Dniester and Tisza-Budapest.

Bessarabia Governorate

As the Russian Empire noticed the weakening of the Ottoman Empire, it occupied the eastern half of the autonomous Principality of Moldavia, between the Prut and Dniester rivers.

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.

Demographic history of Transnistria

MASSR was limited to some areas east of the Dniester, until Balta.

Dniester Hydroelectric Station

Both Dniester Hydroelectric Station and Dniester Pumped Storage Power Station are administered by the Ukrainian Hydro-Energy Administration and compose the Dniester Cascade of power stations.

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

The rest of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is located within the Dniester river and Prut river valleys.

Mihail Lascăr

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

Peace of Busza

The Peace of Busza (Busha, Bose) also known as the Treaty of Jaruga was negotiated by Stanisław Żółkiewski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Iskender Pasha of the Ottoman Empire in Busza (Bose) near the Jaruga and Dniester rivers on September 23, 1617.

Rădăuți-Prut

Although archaeological evidence indicates that flint from this formation was collected from the Prut, Raut and Dniester rivers as early as the Palaeolithic, there is yet no evidence of mining the material until the 1800s.


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