The Battle of the Kalka River (Russian: Битва на реке Калке; Ukrainian: Битва на річці Калка) was fought between the Mongol Empire, whose armies were led by Jebe and Subutai, and a coalition of several Rus' principalities, including Kiev and Halych, and the Cumans under Köten.They were under the joint command of Mstislav the Bold and Mstislav III of Kiev.

The Dnieper–Bug estuary (Ukrainian: Дніпровсько-Бузький лиман) is an open estuary, or liman, of two rivers: the Dnieper and the Southern Bug (also called the Boh River). It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea and is separated from it by Kinburn Spit and the Cape of Ochakiv .

The width of the river in the upper reaches is up to 40 m, on the average - 50–70 m, in the lower reaches 100 - predominantly 250 m, with the entrance to the Kyiv reservoir - 4–5 km. The bottom is sandy and sandy-spruce. The slope of the river is 0.08 m / km Name etymology

The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh (Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh; Russian: Южный Буг, Yuzhny Bug; Romanian: Bugul de Sud or just Bug), and sometimes Boh River (Ukrainian: Бог, Polish: Boh), is a navigable river located in Ukraine.It is the second-longest river in Ukraine.. The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland ...

The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (Ukrainian: ДніпроГЕС, romanized: DniproHES; Russian: ДнепроГЭС, romanized: DneproGES), also known as Dneprostroi Dam, in the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, is the largest hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper river. It is the fifth step of the Dnieper cascade of hydroelectric stations that provides electric power for the …

The first stationary bridge in Kyiv was built between 1848 and 1853. This 770 m (2,526 ft)-long Nicholas Bridge was a chain suspension bridge rested on five pillars. Being one of the largest and most beautiful bridges in Europe, it was the pride of the city until it was blown up in 1920 by the Polish troops. The heavily damaged bridge was not subject to the restoration and in 1925 a …

The Vistula river used to be connected to the Dnieper River, and thence to the Black Sea via the Augustów Canal, a technological marvel with numerous sluices contributing to its aesthetic appeal. It was the first waterway in Central Europe to provide a direct link between the two major rivers, the Vistula and the Neman .

The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 in Ukraine on the Eastern Front of World War II.One of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost 4,000,000 troops at a time stretched on a 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) front. Over four months, the eastern bank of the Dnieper was recovered from German forces by five of the Red Army's …

The most important rivers in Europe are Danube, Volga, Rhine, Elbe, Oder and Dnieper, among others. [further explanation needed]European rivers by length. The longest rivers in Europe, directly flowing into the World Ocean or Endorheic basins, with their approximate lengths:. Volga - 3,690 km (2,290 mi); Danube - 2,860 km (1,780 mi); Ural - 2,428 km (1,509 mi)

The Donets is the largest river in eastern Ukraine and the largest tributary of the Don.Its total length is 1,053 km (654 mi) and the basin area is 98,900 km 2 (38,200 sq mi). Most of the river's length 950 km (590 mi) stretches across Ukraine. The average annual flow is 25 m 3 /s (880 cu ft/s) near the source and 200 m 3 /s (7,100 cu ft/s) at the confluence to the Don.

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World is a 2007 book by the anthropologist David W. Anthony, in which the author describes his "revised Kurgan theory."He explores the origins and spread of the Indo-European languages from the Pontic–Caspian steppe throughout Western Europe, Central …

River systems that may have existed in the past Amazon–Congo. The Amazon basin formerly drained westwards into the Pacific Ocean, until the Andes rose and reversed the drainage.. The Congo basin is completely surrounded by high land, except for its long narrow exit valley past Kinshasa, including waterfalls around Manyanga.That gives the impression that most of the …

Veneti / Sporoi (common ancestors of all Slavs, Proto-Slavs, and the West Slavs with the same name). It is hypothesized that Proto-Slavs had their origin in western Ukraine - west of the Dnieper, east of the Vistula, south of the Pripyat Marshes and north of the Carpathian Mountains and the Dniester, to the northwest of the Pontic Eurasian Steppes and south of the Baltic …

La del mar Báltico-Vístula-Dnieper-mar Negro, con sus ríos, fue una de las rutas comerciales más antiguas; se la conocía como ruta del ámbar, en la que se negociaban el ámbar y otros bienes desde el norte de Europa hasta Grecia, Asia, Egipto y otros lugares. [8] [9] Más adelante, el Vístula fue utilizado para conectar con el río Dnieper, y desde allí con el mar Negro, a …