Hnylyi Tikych (), also known as Gniloy Tikich River, is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

, 157 km in length, a

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...

of the

Tikych The Tikych () is a short river, just long, in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. It is formed by the confluence of its source rivers Hnyly Tikych and Hirsky Tikych, and flows to its own confluence with the Velyka Vys at Skaleva (Holovanivsk Raion), which ...

, in the basin of

Southern Bug , ''Pivdennyi Buh'' , name_etymology = , image = Sunset S Bug Vinnitsa 2007 G1.jpg , image_size = 270 , image_caption = Southern Bug River in the vicinity of Vinnytsia, Ukraine , map = PietinisBug ...

. The Hnylyi Tikych river finds its source near the village of Snizhky in

Bila Tserkva Raion Bila Tserkva Raion ( uk, Білоцерківський район) is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Bila Tserkva. Population: . On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukr ...

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...

. It joins the

Hirskyi Tikych Hirskyi Tikych () is a river in Ukraine, 167 km in length, a tributary of the Tikych, in the basin of Southern Bug. The Hirskyi Tikych river finds its source near the village of Frontivka in Orativ Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast. It joins the 157&n ...

river to form the

Tikych River The Tikych () is a short river, just long, in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. It is formed by the confluence of its source rivers Hnyly Tikych and Hirsky Tikych, and flows to its own confluence with the Velyka Vys at Skaleva (Holovanivsk Raion), which ...

, which soon (after just ) joins the

Velyka Vys The Velyka Vys () is a river in Ukraine, a left tributary of the Synyukha, in the basin of the Southern Bug. It is long and its basin area is .Syniukha 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 .Southern Bug , ''Pivdennyi Buh'' , name_etymology = , image = Sunset S Bug Vinnitsa 2007 G1.jpg , image_size = 270 , image_caption = Southern Bug River in the vicinity of Vinnytsia, Ukraine , map = PietinisBug ...

. It was in the middle of the

Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy The Battle of Korsun–Cherkasy (russian: Корсунь-Шевченковская операция, uk, Корсунь-Шевченківська операція), or the battle of the Korsun–Cherkasy pocket, was a World War II battle f ...

, during World War II in February 1944.

References

* Географічна енциклопедія України: в 3-х томах / Редколегія: О. М. Маринич (відпов. ред.) та ін. — К.: «Українська радянська енциклопедія» імені М. П. Бажана, 1989. {{Ukraine-river-stub Rivers of Cherkasy Oblast Rivers of Kyiv Oblast