Zbruch

Zbruch
Zbruch
Native name	Збруч (Ukrainian); Zbrucz (Polish);
Location
Country	Ukraine
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Shchasnivka, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast
• coordinates	49°43′42″N 26°09′57″E / 49.7283°N 26.1658°E
Mouth	Dniester
• coordinates	48°32′21″N 26°26′34″E / 48.5391°N 26.4427°E
Length	244 km (152 mi)
Basin size	3,395 km2 (1,311 sq mi)
Basin features
Progression	Dniester→ Dniester Estuary→ Black Sea
Tributaries
• left	Bovvanets, Hrabarka
• right	Hnyla

The Zbruch (

left tributary of the Dniester.^[1]

It flows within the

Sviatovit

sacked upon the baptizing of the local population.

Upon the river are situated a couple of small Hydro Electric Stations (Bodnariv's and Martynkiv's), while along the river are some 140 ponds. The river serves as a natural border between

From the Varangians to Greeks

". Presumably the earliest name for the river was Boruch.

The Zbruch had international significance following the

Imperial Russia on the other. During that time the river was also called Pidhirtsi. Following the Polish-Ukrainian Alliance of 1920 it was intended as the border between Poland and Ukraine. After the Treaty of Riga the Polish-Soviet

border was established in the area, running along the river (this situation lasted until 1939).

Polish-Soviet War (1919–1921), distinguished himself in operations near the Zbrucz, where he held the rank of major in the Polish army, and won Poland's highest military decoration, the Virtuti Militari.^[2]

Sites along the river

Medobory Nature Preserve (near towns of Husyatyn and Hrymailiv)

National Nature Park "Podilski Tovtry"

Monochynsk Zakaznik

Kudryntsi Castle
Chornokozyntsi Castle
crossing between the towns of Pidvolochysk and Volochysk, forming historically a major border checkpoint between the Austrian crown and the Russian Empire
town of
Zbruch idol
discovery
Skala-Podilska Castle and park (a state architectural monument)

Characteristics

It is 247 km in length and its drainage basin is 3,330 km².^[1] The average depth is 1.5–2 m. The width of the river is 8–11 m, the depth of the plains is 2.5–4 m. The channel has numerous meanders, there are borderlines, many islands and elders. The slope of the river is 0.8 m / km, the cross-sectional area is 22 m ², the flow rate is 0.57 m / s, the water flow is 15.54 m³ / sec.

Main tributaries

Samchyk, Samets', Hnyla, Vilkhovyi Potik (right)
Hrabarka, Bovvanets', Shandrova, Potik Kizya (left)

Geomorphology

In the upper reaches of the valley is small, its slopes are flattened, plowed. In the middle reaches, the valley is V-shaped (canyon-shaped), width 0.5-1.6 km, slopes steep, dissected by ravines and beams. Floodplain up to 80–100 m, sometimes absent, in the upper reaches up to 1-1,2 km, swampy; Belts narrow down to 80–120 m or less.

References

^ ^a ^b Збруч, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
^ Fenby, Jonathan (2010). The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1847373922. Retrieved 19 November 2017, 71–74

External links

(in Polish) Zbrucz in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1895)
(in Ukrainian) Kundys,M. Zbruch - a river of unity. "Nove zhyttya". June 10, 1989 (website of "Podilski Tovtry" National Park

[bse-1] Збруч, Great Soviet Encyclopedia

[2] Fenby, Jonathan (2010). The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1847373922. Retrieved 19 November 2017, 71–74

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