Southern Bug
| Southern Bug | |
| Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh | |
| River | |
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| Country | Ukraine |
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| Mouth | |
| - location | Bug Estuary, Ukraine |
| Length | 806 km (501 mi) |
| Basin | 63,700 km2 (24,595 sq mi) |
 Southern Bug through Ukraine
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The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh,[1] (Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh: Russian: Yuzhny Bug, Yuzhny also spelled Iuzhnyi: Polish: Boh)),[1] is a river located in Ukraine. The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland, about 145 km from the Polish border, and flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary (Black Sea basin) through the southern steppes. It is 806 kilometres (501 mi) long and drains 63,700 km².
Major cities on the Southern Bug: Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv (listed downstream, i.e. southwards).
[edit] Etymology and history
(Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh; Polish: Boh; Russian: Южный Буг, Yuzhny Bug, Ottoman Turkish: Aksu)
Herodotus refers to it as ancient Greek: Hypanis.[2]
Its name may be related to the proto-Germanic "Bug" which is translated as "bow", the name having been given by Goths,[citation needed] who arrived here in 2-3 centuries AD. During the Migrations Period the Southern Buh was an important obstacle to all the migrating tribes.
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The river is technically navigable for dozens of kilometers up from its mouth; several riverports (such as Voznesensk) exist.
In 2011, plans are announced to revitalize commercial freight navigation on the Southern Bug as part of the increasing grain export from Ukraine.[3]
[edit] Gallery
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Confluence of the rivers Southern Buh and Inhul in Mykolaiv.
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The Ploska River emptying into the Southern Bug.
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Southern Bug, Vinnytsia
[edit] External links
- Southern Buh rafting
- (Polish) Boh in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1880)
- (Russian) Photos of the Southern Buh coasts
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[edit] References
- ^ a b "Encyclopædia Britannica: Southern Buh (River)". Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/556686/Southern-Buh. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
- ^ The Histories, Herodotus p.165
- ^ «НИБУЛОН» заложил основу собственного флота(Ukrainian)
