1) Dnieper. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...One of the longest rivers in Europe, it rises in the Valdai Hills, W of Moscow. It flows generally S past Smolensk, through Belarus, past Mogilev, then through Ukraine,... 2) Dniprohes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Dnieper River near Zaporizhzhya. The hydroelectric station supplies power for the industrial centers of Dnipropetrovsk, Kryvyy Rih, and Zaporizhzhya. More than 1/2... 3) Zaporizhzhya. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Zaporizhzhya region, in Ukraine, a port on the Dnieper River, opposite the island of Khortytsya. The city, founded in 1770 on the site of the Zaporizhzhya Cossack... 4) Smolensk. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Smolensk region, W European Russia, a port on the Dnieper River. It is an important rail junction, a distribution point for the region's agricultural products, and... 5) Kherson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Kherson region, S Ukraine, on the Dnieper River near its mouth on the Black Sea. It is a rail junction and a sea and river port, exporting grain, timber, and manganese... 6) Borysthenes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Borysthenes, Ukraine: see Dnieper.... 7) Dniprodzerzhynsk. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Originally called Kamyanske (Rus. Kamenskoye), it was industrialized in the late 19th cent. and renamed Dniprodzerzhynsk in 1936. A large dam on the Dnieper was completed... 8) Nikopol, city, Ukraine. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...The city has metallurgical plants, machine tool factories, and food-processing and brewing industries. Nikopol stands on the site of one of the earliest trade routes... 9) Orsha. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Dnieper and Orshitsa rivers. One of Belarus's leading rail and water transport junctions and industrial centers, Orsha is the starting point of shipping on the Dnieper.... 10) Ukraine. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Poland in the northwest; on Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova in the southwest; on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the south; on Russia in the east and... |