The Sluch or Southern Sluch (; ; ; ) is a river in
Ukraine
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. It is a right
tributary
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of the
Horyn
The Horyn or Haryn (, ; , ; ; ) is a tributary of the Pripyat, which flows through Ukraine and Belarus. The Horyn is long, and has a drainage basin of .drainage basin
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of . The Sluch takes its source in the Ukrainian oblast of Khmelnytskyi. It then flows through the
Zhytomyr
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and
Rivne
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oblasts, and briefly along the Ukrainian-
Belarus
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ian border before finally emptying into the Horyn.
Cities and towns located on the Sluch river include:
Zviahel
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Podolian Upland
The Podolian Upland (Podolian Plateau) or Podillia Upland (, ''Podilska vysochyna'') is a highland area in southwestern Ukraine, on the left (northeast) bank of the Dniester River, with small portions in its western extent stretching into easter ...
; it flows from a small lake near the village of Chervony Sluch of Galchynetska village council of Theophyll district of the Khmelnytsky region. In the lower reaches in the Polis lowland.
First, it flows east, then gradually returns to the north, then to the northwest, and from the city of Sarny - again to the north. Falls to
The Ichthyofauna of the river is represented by 37 species of cyclostomes and fish, the largest number of species occurs near the village Marinin of Bereznovsky district (36 species). According to the
Red Data Book
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of
Ukraine
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, the conservation status of the ichthyofauna of the river is ordinary Leuciscus leuciscus, Linnaeus, Carassius carassius, Linnaeus and Lota lota, Linnaeus in the vulnerable category, as well as
Russia
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n albino (Alburnoides rossicus, Berg, 1924), lobster gulls (Eupallasella percnurus, Pallas, 1814), Drenier's Marsh (Barbus borysthenicus, Dybowski, 1862), Gymnochepus acerinus, Gueldenstaedt, 1774, Ukrainian Minogue (Eudontomyzon mariae, Berg, 1931) in the category fading The most numerous species are pike, gossip, redhead, verkhovka, ploskryk, beetle, wild boar, perch.
Interesting Facts
Along the river bank in
Zhytomyr oblast
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H ...
, on the 120th kilometer, there is the Novograd-Volynskyi " Stalin Line", built in 1932–1939. The most famous place of this church is the Gul Mine, located in the village of Gulsk.
In April 2012, the small planet No. 251001 was named Sluch in honor of the river.
Ecological catastrophe
April 14, 2016, in connection with the catastrophic environmental situation - the pollution of an unknown substance of the Khomor and Sluch rivers, which led to the mass death of living organisms: fish, crayfish and others - was banned the use of water from rivers, watering cattle, discharge to the rivers of the feathered bird, fish and crayfish.
See also
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Sluch (Belarus)
The Sluch or Northern Sluch (; ; ; ) is a river in Belarus. Rising in Minsk Oblast, it flows past the cities of Salihorsk and Slutsk, finally emptying into the Pripyat. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
The (also spelled Morocz or Mora ...
, or Northern Sluch
Notes
Top ↑ Goryev LM, Peleshenko VI, Khilchevsky V.K. Hydrochemistry of Ukraine. K .: Higher school, 1995. - 307 pp.
Top ↑ http://baranivkarda.org.ua/index.php/novyny/2800-uvaha-zabrudnena-voda
Sources
* Geographical Encyclopedia of Ukraine: 3 t. / Editorial Board: O. M. Marinych (repl. Ed.) And others. - K.: "Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia" by them. M.P. Bazhana, 1989.
*Ichthyofauna cadastre of the Rivne region / Grohovskaya Yu.R., Volovik G.P., Konontsev S.V. and others; Ed. Moshinsky V. S. and Grohovskaya Yu. R. - Rivne: Doka-center, 2012. - 200 p