Seversky Donets River
Seversky Donets of course (English Donets ) and Don
Catchment area of the Donets with tributaries
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The Seversky Donets (Ukrainian Сіверський Донець, Russian Северский Донец / Seversky Donets, usually just called the Donets ) is a right 1053 km long tributary of the Don in southwestern Russia and in eastern Ukraine ( Eastern Europe).
The river, whose catchment area covers 98,900 km ², is named after the tribe of the Sewerjanen (Russian Северяне ).
Name of the river
The river has several " unofficial" names and descriptions: In Russian, he is also known as Little Don ( Малый Дон ). Occasionally, linguistically and geographically incorrect German translation " Northern Donets " is used to delineate the river from Don. Mostly, however, the short form Donets is used.
Course
From the Seversky Donets river of 950 km are in Ukraine. It rises about 100 km north of Belgorod and ends just south of Ust- Donezki. Headwaters and mouth are both in Russia.
The Seversky Donets built in the south of the highlands of the Central Russian plate near the Kursk Oblast. In the course of Belgorod before he has a very low gradient. In Ukraine arrived, flows into the river in the 86 km ² Petschenihy Reservoir, from which the city of Kharkiv refers drinking water. Then it flows in an easterly direction to the north of Donezrückens to several Ukrainian cities, including Lysychansk and Sjewjerodonezk, past, before he returned to Russian territory. As most little water leading so-called " steppe river " flows Seversky Donets into the Don of which only around 150 km further down the valley pours itself into the Sea of Azov.
Hydrology
The river usually leads rain and melt water. He reached the highest water level from February to April. In the annual mean flow from 159 m³ / s of water. Approximately 315 km of its river course are navigable, but he is frozen from December to mid-March.
Environment and inflows
On the right ( southern ) bank of its middle run, the Donets Basin, a large coal mining area and an important industrial area. Important tributaries are Oskol, Ajdar, Derkul and Kalitwa.