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Desna (river)
River in Russia and Ukraine
River in Russia and Ukraine
| Field | Value | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | Desna | |||||||||
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| image | Desna River in Chernihiv.jpg | |||||||||
| image_caption | The Desna flows through Chernihiv, Ukraine. | |||||||||
| map | Dnipro Basin River Town International.png | |||||||||
| map_size | 250 | |||||||||
| map_caption | The Dnieper and the Desna rivers' drainage basin. In this map, Belarus is shown in yellow, Russia in green and Ukraine in deep red. | |||||||||
| mapframe | yes | |||||||||
| mapframe-zoom | 5 | |||||||||
| subdivision_type1 | Country | |||||||||
| subdivision_name1 | Russia, Ukraine | |||||||||
| subdivision_type5 | Cities | |||||||||
| subdivision_name5 | Bryansk, Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv, Kyiv | |||||||||
| length | 1130 km | |||||||||
| discharge1_location | Kyiv | |||||||||
| discharge1_avg | 360 m3/s | |||||||||
| source1_location | Smolensk Upland, Russia | |||||||||
| source1_coordinates | {{coord | 54 | 35 | 16 | N | 33 | 17 | 32 | E | |
| mouth | Desna Delta | |||||||||
| mouth_location | just north of Kyiv, Ukraine | |||||||||
| mouth_coordinates | ||||||||||
| progression | ||||||||||
| basin_size | 88900 km2 | |||||||||
| tributaries_left | Seym, Oster | |||||||||
| tributaries_right | Sudost |
| mapframe-zoom = 5
The Desna (Russian and ) is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper. Its name in means "right hand". It has a length of 1130 km, and its drainage basin covers 88900 km2.
In Ukraine, the river's width ranges from 60 to, with its average depth being 3 m. The mean annual discharge at its mouth is 360 m³/s. The river freezes over from early December to early April, and is navigable from Novhorod-Siverskyi to its mouth, a length of about 535 km.
The water level of the river reached its lowest recorded point in 140 years in June 2020. This water level was 5 m (16 ft) below normal for that time of year. |access-date= 2021-04-14|website= earthobservatory.nasa.gov|language= en
Geography
Course
The Desna originates in the Smolensk Heights of Smolensk Oblast, Russia. The river's source lies in Yelninsky District, east-southeast from the city of Smolensk and not far from Yelnya in a forest near the village of Naleti. The Desna then flows south through a low and swampy valley toward the city of Bryansk, where the river's right bank rises.
After its confluence with the Seym near the Russian-Ukrainian border, the river then widens, splitting into numerous smaller branches. Its right bank declines again near the city of Chernihiv, and again near one of its tributaries, the Oster, where the Desna continues its course through a low, muddy plain until it finally reaches its mouth near Kyiv at the Dnieper River.
Tributaries
The Desna has many tributaries. The most significant (length more than 100 km) are, from source to mouth:
- Vetma (left)
- Bolva (left)
- Navlya (left)
- Nerussa (left)
- Sudost (right)
- Ubid (right)
- Seym (left)
- Snov (right)
- Oster (left)
Cities and towns on the Desna
- Yelnya, Russia
- Desnogorsk, Russia
- Zhukovka, Russia
- Seltso, Russia
- Bryansk, Russia
- Trubchevsk, Russia
- Novhorod-Siverskyi, Ukraine
- Chernihiv, Ukraine
- Oster, Ukraine
- Kyiv, Ukraine
- Snov'yanka, Ukraine
The Svensky Monastery is located at the confluence of the Desna and the Sven River.
References
References
- [http://bse.sci-lib.com/article024277.html Десна], [[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]].
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