Desna River

Desna River
Coordinates: 50330N 30320E [1]

Desna
, Desna River

The Desna River flows through Chernihiv, Ukraine. Countries Tributaries -left -right Cities Source -location Mouth Smolensk Heights, Russia Desna Delta Seim, Oster Sudost Bryansk, Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv Russia, Ukraine

-coordinates 50330N 30320E [1] Length Basin Discharge -average 1,130 km (702 mi) 88,900 km2 (34,324 sq mi) for Kiev 360 m3/s (12,713 cu ft/s)

The Dnieper and the Desna Rivers' drainage basin.

Desna (Russian: ; Ukrainian: ) is a river in Russia and Ukraine, left tributary of the Dnieper. The word means "right hand" in the Old East Slavic language. Its length is 1,130km (702mi), and its drainage basin covers 88,900km2 (34,324sqmi). In Ukraine, the river's width ranges from 60 to 250 metres, with its average depth being 3m (10ft). The mean annual discharge at its mouth is 360 m/s (12,713ft/s). The river freezes over from early December to early April, and is navigable from Novhorod-Siverskyi to its mouth, which totals about 535km (332mi).

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Geography
Course
The Desna River originates in the Smolensk Heights of Smolensk Oblast, Russia. The river's source lies eastsoutheast 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 Seim River 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 Kiev at the Dnieper River.

Tributaries
The Desna has 18 right and 13 left tributaries. The most significant are:

Chernihiv's Trinity Church and Monastery with the Desna River in the background.

Bolva (L) Nerussa (L)

Sudost (R) Snov (R)

Seim (L) Oster (L)

Stryzhen (R)

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

The Svensky Monastery is located at the confluence of the Desna and the Svin River.

External links
Desna River [2] at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine [3] Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary [4] Desna, tributary of the Dnepr Wikipedia:Link rot

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References
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