The Styr (; ; ) is a right
tributary of the
Pripyat, with a length of 494 km. Its
basin area is 13,100 km
2 located in historical region of
Volhynia.
The Styr begins near
Brody, in the Ukrainian Oblast of
Lviv, then flows into
Rivne Oblast,
Volyn Oblast, then into
Brest Region of
Belarus where it finally flows into the Pripyat.
During the
Khmelnytskyi Uprising, in 1651 at Styr river took place important
battle of Berestechko between armies of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the
Cossacks
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of
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ua, Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and ...
.
During 1915–1916, the Styr river was the front line between the
Austro-Hungarian
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and
Imperial Russia
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n armies.
The river was also a barrier to the German invasion on June 22, 1941, during
Operation Barbarossa on the South-Western Front.
Notable settlements located on the river are
Lutsk,
Staryi Chortoryisk
Staryi Chortoryisk ( uk, Старий Чорторийськ, translit. ''Staryi Chortoryis'k'', pl, Czartorysk) is a village (''selo'') in north-western Ukraine. It is located on the bank of the Styr River in the Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion of Volyn ...
and
Varash
Varash ( uk, Вараш), from 1977 to 2016 Kuznetsovsk ( uk, Кузнецо́вськ, links=no), is a city in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Varash urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine and Varash Raion, one of the ...
.
Tributaries
* Left:
Radostavka,
Sudylivka,
Chornohuzka, ,
Serna
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,
Liutytsia,
Okinka,
Richytsia,
Zhyduvka,
Omelianyk
* Right:
Ikva
The Ikva ( uk, Іква) is a river in Ukraine and a right tributary of the Styr River that flows through Lviv Oblast, Ternopil Oblast and Rivne Oblast in the Volhynian Upland.Zabokrytska, M. Ikva (І́КВА)'. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine.
It ...
,
Slonivka,
Pliashivka,
Boldurka,
Liubka,
Rudka,
Kormyn,
Riv
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* Right innominate vein
* Recombinant influenza vaccine
Military aviation
* March Air Reserve Base, a U.S. Air Reserve base in Riverside County, California, by IATA airport code
* Fieseler Fi 103R Reiche ...
,
Konopelka,
Sapalayivka
Images
File:Ukraine Fluesse mitName Oblast Wolhynien.png, The Styr River on the map of Volyn Oblast
File:Dnepr basin-Ukr.png, Dnieper basin
File:Іній - panoramio.jpg, In frost near Boratyn
References
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International rivers of Europe
Rivers of Belarus
Rivers of Brest Region
Rivers of Lviv Oblast
Rivers of Rivne Oblast
Rivers of Volyn Oblast