Interesting facts about the river Dnipro

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The age of the Dnieper River – almost 5-6 million years ago, in your favorite time after the transgression Paleogene-tertiary sea.
The name of the Dnieper is a Scythian origin. Scythian Danapr translates as "deep river" (Dan is a river + Apr-deep). Some researchers incline to the opinion that the Dnepr in ancient times was called Sìndgu, Sindh, Indus River, because there was a nizìv'âh Sìndika, otherwise Sìnds′ka Scythia.
The oldest written information on Dnieper left the Greek historian and geographer Herodotus in the fourth book of his history, called "Melpomene": Borisfen-so he called Dnipro. First national information on the Dnipro River is in the Chronicles of Kievan Rus ' — "tale of vrem'ânih years" and in the great poetic work "lay."
History of Ukraine-RUS ' is connected with the Dnieper. Its swimming pool is the central place of ethnogenesis and nacìogenezu. Kiev is the capital of Ukraine, thanks to the Dnieper River lies at the intersection of trade routes between the East and West, North and South.
In IV-III Millennium b.c. there lived Slavic tribes radimičìv, built dregovichy. Later on the River lies the famous trade route "from the Varangians to the Greeks", which connected the Baltic and Black Sea and led up to the Byzantine Empire. Despite the fact that the function of the Dnieper River as a trading and transport route periodically weakening through forays of nomads, he always played an important role in the economy and culture of the peoples inhabiting its shores.
Dnipro-River with the longest stream in Ukraine. In the natural state of its length was 2000 285 km, now (after building a cascade of HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATIONS and water reservoirs, when in many places viprâmili fairway) – 2 thousand. 201 km; within Ukraine – 981 km.
Dnipro originates in a small swamp Aksenìns′kij Moss on the southern slope of the Valdai hills near the village of Bocharova Smolensk Oblast in Russia. From the slopes of Valdai hills flows also Volga, Daugava, Lovat′, Sâs′ and Mologa. Flows the Dnieper in the Dnieper-Bug estuary of the Black Sea.
The Dnieper forms on the territory of Ukraine the likeness of the great meadow adjacent to the East half of the path increases central Ukraine Dnieper to the Black Sea: distance from Kiev to the mouth of the Dnieper River in a straight line is 450 km, the river is 950 km.
Between the Dnieper and Zaporizhia river crosses the Ukrainian shield (raised the South-western part of fundamentuShìdnoêvropejs′koï platform). In the past there were Rapids, now they are filled with the waters of the Dnieper reservoir.
Now the water of the River uses 70% of the population (almost 35 million people), it accounted for half of all river routes in the country and the main part (about 60%) River transportation of cargo and passengers.
In the basin of the Dnieper River flows 15 380 small rivers or about 25% of their total number in Ukraine. Their total length is 67 156 km of rivers, length of 10 km and more-13 998 with a total length of 35 041 km.
On the banks of the Dnieper River are located more than 50 large and small cities, including the capital of Ukraine – Kiev. On the river Svislach River is a tributary of the river Berezini, the Dnipro basin is located the capital of Belarus is Minsk. In the Ukrainian area of the Dnieper River are 26 cities.