List of longest rivers of Ukraine

Hydrographic zoning in Ukraine

Ukraine has around 23,000 rivers, with most of the rivers draining into the Black Sea and Azov Sea and belonging to the larger Mediterranean basin. Those rivers mostly flow in a southerly direction, except for the Pripyat tributaries in Volhynia and Dniester tributaries in Prykarpattia. A few western Ukraine rivers drain to the north west through Poland to the Baltic Sea, as part of the Western Bug drainage basin. The most notable rivers of Ukraine include the Dnieper, Dniester, Southern Buh, and Siverskyi Donets. The longest river is the Dnieper, the longest tributary is the Dnieper's tributary Desna. Two of the Danube's tributaries in Ukraine, the Prut and the Tysa, are longer than the main river within Ukraine.

A NASA satellite image of the Dnieper and its tributaries.

The territory of Ukraine can be divided into nine hydrographic zones according to major river basins, including the basins of the Wisła (Western Bug and San), Danube, Dniester, Southern Bug, Dnieper, Don, the rivers of the Black Sea littoral, the Sea of Azov littoral, and separately the rivers of Crimea. The biggest river basin by area is the Dnieper which is subdivided into the Pripyat basin, Desna basin, basin of Middle Dnieper, basin of Lower Dnieper. Beside Dnieper, basin of the Danube zoning is also subdivided into basin of Tysa, basin of Prut and Siret, and basin of the Lower Danube.

List of major rivers in Ukraine

Listed are rivers over 150 km (93 mi) long. Length is in kilometers.

Name	Name (Cyrillic)	Length (in Ukraine)	Length (total)	Drainage area	Basin
Dnieper	Дніпро	981	2201	291,400	Dnieper-Bug Estuary
Southern Bug	Південний Буг	806	806	63,700	Dnieper-Bug Estuary
Dniester	Дністер	705	1362	72,100	Black Sea
Siverskyi Donets	Сіверський Донець	672	1053	98,900	Don
Desna	Десна	591	1130	88,900	Dnieper
Horyn	Горинь	577[1]	659[1]	27,010[1]	Pripyat
Inhulets	Інгулець	549	549	14,870	Dnieper
Psel	Псел	526	717	22,800	Dnieper
Sluch	Случ	451	451	13,800	Horyn
Styr	Стир	445	494	13,100	Pripyat
Western Bug	Західний Буг	401	831	73,500	Narew [Narva]
Teteriv	Тетерів	385	385	15,300	Dnieper
Sula	Сула	365	365	19,600	Dnieper
Inhul	Інгул	354	354	9,890	Southern Bug
Vorskla	Ворскла	348	464	14,700	Dnieper
Ros	Рось	346	346	12,600	Dnieper
Oril	Оріль	346[2]	346[2]	9,800[2]	Dnieper
Udai	Удай	327[2]	327[2]	7,030[2]	Sula
Vovcha	Вовча	323[2]	323[2]	13,300[2]	Samara
Samara	Самара	320	320	22,600	Dnieper
Khorol	Хорол	308[2]	308[2]	3,870[2]	Psel
Prut	Прут	272	967	27,500	Danube
Pripyat	Прип'ять	261	761	121,000	Dnieper
Uzh	Уж	256[2]	256[2]	8,080[2]	Pripyat
Zbruch	Збруч	244	244	3,400	Dniester
Seret	Серет	242	242	3,900[3]	Dniester
Stryi	Стрий	232	232	3,060[4]	Dniester
Seim	Сейм	222[5]	748[5]	27,500	Desna
Aidar	Айдар	213[6]	264[6]	7,420	Siverskyi Donets
Kalmius	Кальміус	209[2]	209[2]	5,070[2]	Sea of Azov
Salhir	Салгир	204[7]	204[7]	3,750[7]	Syvash
Tysa	Тиса	201	966	11,300[2]	Danube
Vysun	Висунь	201[2]	201[2]	2,670[2]	Inhulets
Oster	Остер	199[2]	201[2]	2,950[2]	Desna
Luhan	Лугань	198[2]	198[2]	3,740[2]	Siverskyi Donets
Molochna	Молочна	197[2]	197[2]	3,450[2]	Sea of Azov
Snov	Снов	190[2]	253[2]		Desna
Stokhid	Стохід	188[2]	188[2]	3,150[2]	Pripyat
Turija	Турія	184[2]	184[2]	2,800[2]	Pripyat
Oskil	Оскiл	177[2]	472[2]		Siverskyi Donets
Danube	Дунай	174[2]	2900[2]		Black Sea
Ubort	Уборть	171[2]	292[2]		Pripyat
Krynka	Кринка	170[2]	180[2]		Mius River
Smotrych	Смотрич	168[2]	168[2]	1,800[2]	Dniester
Hirsky Tikych	Гірський Тікич	167[2]	167[2]	3,510[2]	Hnylyi Tikych
Velyka Vys	Велика Вись	166[2]	166[2]	2,860[2]	Synyukha
Murafa	Мурафа	163[2]	163[2]	2,410[2]	Dniester
Irpin	Ірпінь	162[2]	162[2]	3,340[2]	Dnieper
Tiasmyn	Тясмин	160[2]	160[2]	4,540[2]	Dnieper
Bazavluk	Базавлук	157[2]	157[2]	4,200[2]	Dnieper
Hnylyi Tikych	Гнилий Тікич	157[2]	157[2]	3,150[2]	Synyukha
Ikva	Іква	156[2]	156[2]	2,250[2]	Styr
Chychyklia	Чичиклія	156[2]	156[2]	2,120[2]	Southern Bug
Tylihul	Тилігул	154[2]	154[2]	3,300[2]	Black Sea
Derkul	Деркул	153[2]	163[2]		Siverskyi Donets
Stvyha	Ствига	66[2]	178[2]	5,440[2]	Pripyat
Velykyi Kuialnyk	Великий Куяльник	150[2]	150[2]	1,860[2]	Black Sea

Black Sea basin

•   Dnieper's tributaries
•   Southern Bug's tributaries
•   Dniester's tributaries
•   Danube's tributaries
•   Black Sea estuaries' tributaries

Sea of Azov basin

•   Siverskyi Donets' tributaries
•   Kalmius's tributaries
•   Salhir's tributaries
•   Mius' tributaries

Baltic Sea basin

•   Western Bug's tributaries

Trivia

The most water in Ukraine is carried by Dnieper. Its annual drainage volume is 52.42 km³ (12.58 cu mi). The only other river that has higher drainage volume is the Danube which running through Central Europe within Ukraine stretches only for 174 km (108 mi). The average annual drainage of the Danube is around 123 km³ (30 cu mi).

The deepest river of Ukraine is Dniester. In its mid stream between Pyzhniv village and Mohyliv-Podilsky through the Dniester canyon (Podillia Upland) the river narrows to 1.5 km (0.93 mi) in width and deepens up to 10 m (33 ft).

The biggest water amount among distributaries is carried by the Chilia branch.

The biggest river delta in Ukraine belongs to Dnieper and has area of 350 km² (140 sq mi), while the Danube Delta within Ukraine is only 120 km² (46 sq mi).

Gallery

Images of Ukrainian Rivers

• 
  The Dnieper River passes through many cities — notably Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. In Kyiv, more than seven bridges cross the river.
• 
  A map of the Southern Buh flowing through Ukraine (in Lithuanian).
• 
  Kalmius river, Donetsk

See also

• Waterfalls of Ukraine
• List of rivers of Europe
• Category:Rivers of Ukraine

References

1. Chapter 3. Quantitative characteristics of surface waters^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. Division of the small rivers amount in basin of major river of Ukraine
3. Серет, Словарь современных географических названий
4. Стрый, Словарь современных географических названий
5. Rivers, lakes, and swamps of the Chernihiv land^{[permanent dead link‍]}
6. Ecological passport of the Luhansk Oblast^{[permanent dead link‍]}
7. Салгир, Словарь современных географических названий

Further reading

(Copies of the works are available at the Electronic library "Chtyvo")

• Shvets, H., Drozd, N., Levchenko, S. Catalog of rivers of the Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv: "Publishing of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR", 1957.
• Klymenko, V. Hydrology of Ukraine. Kharkiv: "Karazin National University publishing", 2010.

External links

• Electronic library "Chtyvo"
• Rivers of Ukraine suitable for Rafting
• Matsenko, H. Book of records of Ukraine. Nature around us. "Bohdan Books". ISBN 9789667520571