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 ...
in
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 ...
, a
left 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 b ...
of the
Southern Bug
, ''Pivdennyi Buh''
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, image_caption = Southern Bug River in the vicinity of Vinnytsia, Ukraine
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, the basin of
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Roma ...
. Its name means blue or of blue shade. It is long and its basin area is .Синюха (река)
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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It is formed at the confluence of its source rivers
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 ...
(itself formed at the confluence of the
Hnyly Tikych
Hnylyi Tikych (), also known as Gniloy Tikich River, is a river in Ukraine, 157 km in length, a tributary of the Tikych, in the basin of Southern Bug. The Hnylyi Tikych river finds its source near the village of Snizhky in Bila Tserkva Raion ...
and the
Hirsky 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 ...
) and
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 .Pervomaysk.
It is believed that in the mid 14th century here took place one of major battles between the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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and the
Ulus Jochi
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, the
Battle of Blue Waters
The Battle of Blue Waters ( lt, Mūšis prie Mėlynųjų Vandenų, be, Бітва на Сініх Водах, uk, Битва на Синіх Водах) was a battle fought at some time in autumn 1362 or 1363 on the banks of the Syniukha river, ...
* Географічна енциклопедія України: в 3-х томах / Редколегія: О. М. Маринич (відпов. ред.) та ін. — К.: «Українська радянська енциклопедія» імені М. П. Бажана, 1989.
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