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Khmelnytskyi Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast ( uk, Хмельни́цька о́бласть, translit=Khmelnytska oblast; also referred to as Khmelnychchyna — uk, Хмельни́ччина) is an oblast (province) of western Ukraine covering portions of the histo ...

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The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh ( uk, Південний Буг, ''Pivdennyi Buh''; russian: Южный Буг, ''Yuzhny Bug''; ro, Bugul de Sud or just ), and sometimes Boh River ( uk, Бог, pl, Boh),Boh River
at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine 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, about from the Polish border, from where it flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary ( Black Sea basin) through the southern steppes. It is long and drains .Южный Буг
Great Soviet Encyclopedia Several regionally important cities and towns in Ukraine are located on the Southern Bug. Beginning in Western Ukraine and moving downstream, in a southeasterly direction, they are: Khmelnytskyi, Khmilnyk, Vinnytsia, Haivoron, Pervomaisk, Voznesensk and Mykolaiv. Between 1941 and 1944 during World War II the Southern Bug formed the border between the German-occupied Ukraine and the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine, called Transnistria.

Nomenclature, etymology and history

( uk, Південний Буг, ''Pivdennyi Buh''; pl, Boh; russian: Южный Буг; Ottoman tr, Aksu) Herodotus (c. 484–425 BCE) refers to the river using its ancient Greek name: Hypanis. During the

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of the 5th to the 8th centuries CE the Southern Bug represented a major obstacle to all the migrating peoples in the area. The long-standing local Slavic name of the river, ''Boh'' (

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: Бог), according to Zbigniew Gołąb as ''*bugъ''/''*buga'' derives from Indo-European verbal root ''*bheug-'' (having cognates in old Germanic word ''*bheugh-'' etc. with meaning of "bend, turn, moves away"), with hypothetical original meaning of "pertaining to a (river) bend", and derivatives in Russian ''búga'' ("low banks of a river, overgrown with bushes"), Polish ''bugaj'' ("bushes or woods in a river valley or on a steep river bank"), Latvian ''bauga'' ("marshy place by a river"). The 17th-century French military engineer and geographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan recorded the name of the river as ''Bog''. From the 16th to the 18th centuries most of the south of Ukraine was under Turkish imperial domination and the colonists renamed the river using their own language to the ''Aq-su'', meaning the "White river". Indigenous Slavic toponyms were re-established after the liberation of the Pontic region from Turkish domination in the 17th and 18th centuries. On March 6, 1918, the

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of the Ukrainian People's Republic adopted a law on the "administrative-territorial division of Ukraine", dividing it into regional districts. One of these, Pobozhia (meaning lands of the ''Boh'', uk , Побожжя), was in the upstream lands of the Southern Bug, near the source of the river.

Tributaries

The main tributaries of the Southern Bug are, from source to mouth (length in parentheses): * Left:

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(75), Ikva (57), Snyvoda (58), Desna (80), Sob (115), Udych (56), Synytsia (78),

Synyukha Syniukha () is a river in Ukraine, a left tributary of the Southern Bug, the basin of Black Sea. Its name means blue or of blue shade. It is long and its basin area is .Velyka Korabelna (45), Mertvovid (114), Hnylyi Yelanets (103), Inhul (354) * Right: Vovk (71), Zghar (95), Riv (104), Silnytsia (67), Dokhna (68), Savran (97),

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(149), Bakshala (57),

Chychyklia The Chychyklia ( uk, Чичиклія) is a river in Ukraine and a right tributary of the Southern Bug that flows through Odesa Oblast and Mykolaiv Oblast at the border between the Podolian Upland and Black Sea Lowland within the Ukrainian steppe.W ...

(156)

Ecology

In October 2020, the Southern Bug was stocked with three hundred and fifty kilograms of Hungarian carp and 50 kilograms of silver carp at Khmelnytskyi.

Bridges and ferries

The Varvarivskyi Bridge over Southern Bug in Mykolayiv is a swing bridge (facilitating ship building) with Europe's largest span (134 m). It is also the southernmost bridge over the river.

Navigation

The river is technically navigable for dozens of kilometers up from its mouth; several river ports (such as Mykolayiv) exist. In 2011, plans were announced to revive commercial freight navigation on the Southern Bug upstream of Mykolayiv, to facilitate the increasing

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export from Ukraine.«НИБУЛОН» заложил основу собственного флота
/ref> As of April 2018, freight navigation was renewed between the estuary and a newly built grain terminal in the village of Prybuzhany, Voznesensk Raion, in the center of the Mykolaiv Oblast.

Gallery

File:Southern Bug under ice.JPG, Winter-frozen Southern Bug in Mykolaiv. File:Rika Ploska vpadaye v Pivdenny Bug, Khmelnitsky, 2005 07 28.jpg, The emptying into the Southern Bug. File:South Bug Vinnitsa 2006 G1.JPG, Southern Bug in Vinnytsia. File:Ship M I Pirogov Vinnitsa 2006 G2.jpg, A riverboat on the river in Vinnytsia (2006). File:South bug08.jpg, Riverside skyline of Khmelnytskyi. File:Yujni bug 2.jpg, Southern Bug in vicinity of the Granite-steppe lands of Bug landscape park. File:Меджибізький замок (травень 2011).jpg, Southern Bug in Medzhybizh File:Confluence of the rivers Southern Bug and Dnieper.jpg, Historical map of the confluence of the rivers Southern Bug and Dnieper.

References

External links

Southern Buh rafting
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Boh
in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1880) *
Photos of the Southern Buh coasts
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{{Authority control Rivers of Ukraine Rivers of Khmelnytskyi Oblast Rivers of Kirovohrad Oblast Rivers of Mykolaiv Oblast Rivers of Odesa Oblast Rivers of Vinnytsia Oblast Tributaries of the Black Sea