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The name Dniester derives from Sarmatian dānu nazdya "the close river". [7] The Dnieper , also of Sarmatian origin, derives from the opposite meaning, "the river on the far side".) Alternatively, according to Vasily Abaev Dniester would be a blend of Scythian dānu "river" and Thracian Ister , the previous name of the river, literally Dān ...
The most notable rivers of Ukraine include the Dnieper, Dniester, Southern Buh, and Siverskyi Donets. The longest river is the Dnieper, the longest tributary is the Dnieper's tributary Desna. Two of the Danube's tributaries in Ukraine, the Prut and the Tysa, are longer than the main river within Ukraine.
Hnyla Lypa (Ukrainian: Гнила Липа, Polish: Gniła Lipa) is a river in Ukraine, a tributary of the Dniester river. [1] The name literally means "rotten linden tree" both in Polish and Ukrainian. It runs parallel to the Zolota Lypa river.
The Bystrytsia Tysmenytska (Ukrainian: Бистриця Тисменицька [1]) is a river in western Ukraine, and is a part of the Dniester basin. The river is a right tributary of the Dniester, and flows through parts of Lviv Oblast.
Dniester Canyon at the village of Pylypche, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. Dniester Canyon is located in southwestern Ukraine along a 250 km (160 mi) segment of the Dniester, extending from the mouth of Zolota Lypa River, near the village of Nyzhniv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, to the Dniester Hydroelectric Station near Novodnistrovsk, Chernivtsi Oblast. [2]
In the south of the catchment area, the main river Dnieper runs into a peak west of the city of Kherson and runs across the Dnieper–Bug estuary, where the stream flows into the Black Sea. [3] In the southwest, the catchment area of the Dnieper borders on the Southern Bug Basin, [ 4 ] which attaches laterally to the catchment area of the Dnieper.
Dniester Estuary, or Dniester Liman (Ukrainian: Дністровський лиман; Romanian: Limanul Nistrului) is a liman, formed at the point where the river Dniester flows into the Black Sea. It is located in Ukraine , in Odesa Oblast , and connects Budjak to the Ukrainian mainland.
Dzygivka is part of the Dniester River Basin, which encompasses 7 oblasts of Ukraine and half of the territory of Moldova and includes a population of approximately 8 million people. [6] Moldova , Transnistria and Ukraine are working in a trans-boundary cooperation towards sustainable management of the Dniester River Basin.