Berezan River
| Berezan | |
|---|---|
 River estuary | |
| Native name | Березань (Ukrainian) |
| Location | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 46°50′11″N 31°35′12″E / 46.8363°N 31.5868°E |
The Berezan is a Ukrainian river flowing into the Berezan Estuary of the Black Sea. The river is 49 km long, the catchment area is 890 km2. Slope 1.5 m / km. The trapezoidal river valley is 2 km wide. The channel is meandering, in the upper reaches 5 m wide, 1.2–1.5 m deep. In the summer it partially dries up. It is used for irrigation.
The river originates from the village of
.In 1974, near the village of Yablonya, in the Berezan River basin, burial 11 of mound 11 was investigated, which belongs to the Sivashovka-type monuments of the 2nd half of the 7th century - early 8th century.[1]
Etymology
Vladimir Nikonov (1904 - 1988) indicates that the name may be derived from the Avestan berezant, Scythian bresant, which means high.[2]
History
In ancient times, the river was in
See also
Further reading
- Resources of surface waters of the USSR. Description of rivers and lakes and calculations of the main characteristics of their regime. - T. 6. Ukraine and Moldova. Issue 1. Western Ukraine and Moldova (excluding the Dniester basin). - L., Gidrometeoizdat, 1978. - 260-263 p.
