The Dnipro – Kryvyi Rih Canal (), also known as the Dnieper – Krivoy Rog Canal (), is a canal in central

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

mainly used for supplying water to the city of

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( ; , ), also known as Krivoy Rog ( ), is a city in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kryvyi Rih Raion and its subordinate Kryvyi Rih urban hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The city is part of the Kryvyi Rih Metropo ...

History

Construction of the canal began in 1957, and was completed by 1960. The canal also underwent renovations in the 1970s.

Characteristics

The canal begins at the

Kakhovka Reservoir The Kakhovka Reservoir () was a water reservoir on the Dnieper River in Ukraine. It was created in 1956 by construction of the Kakhovka Dam at Nova Kakhovka. It was one of several reservoirs in the Dnieper reservoir cascade. The dam was breac ...

, and moves northwest to near the city of

. The width of the canal is about , while the depth varies between and .

References

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