Temernik River

The Temernik near the Druzhba park in the northern part of the city

The Temernik (Russian Темерник also Temernitschka Russian Темерничка ) is a small right tributary of the Don in Rostov Oblast.

Geography

Of the total 35.5 kilometers of river length are 16 km in the Rostov city. The source of the Temernik in Rajon Mjasnikowski on the northern outskirts of Rostov is the adjustable outflow of a small artificial lake named Rostov Sea (Russian Ростовское море ), whose main tributary is the Kamyschewacha (Russian Камышеваха ). The Temernik who is very dirty due to its location within the metropolitan area, the tenth largest city in Russia ( Rostov agglomeration with 2.16 million inhabitants ) has an average gradient of 2.3%, is about 10 m wide and deep 30 to 80 cm. He collects natural surface waters of the northern and western districts of Rostov.

History

The connected with the city's founding in 1749 Temernik -inch (Russian Темерницкая таможня ) owes its name to the river.

400 meters from the west / right Temernikufer is located between the left bank and the zoo in which one and a half kilometers in a southwesterly direction away right bank Botanical Garden, separated from it only by a garden settlement and a railway embankment, the Holocaust Memorial Smijowskaja Balka. It was named after a tributary of the Temernik and is the burial place of some 27,000 civilians and prisoners of war, which were of a destruction action of Einsatzgruppe D to the victims in the summer of 1942.