The Sula ( Ukrainian : Сула́ ; Russian : Су́ла ) is a left tributary of the Dnieper with a total length of 363 kilometres (226 mi) and a drainage basin of 19,600 square kilometres (7,600 sq mi).
4-556: The river flows into the Dnieper through the Kremenchuk Reservoir , with which it forms a large delta with numerous islands, on which rare kinds of birds live. An important tributary is the Uday , smaller ones being Orzhytsya , Sliporid , Romen and Tern . Large cities located on the river are Romny , Lokhvytsia and Lubny . The river's name evokes slow or muddy waters considering
8-543: A volume of 13.5 km . The reservoir's water level is maintained by the dam of the Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Plant , built between 1954 and 1959. Its filling resulted in the submersion of 23 populated places in the Novoheorhivsk Raion, including Kryliv and Novoheorhivsk . The Sula River flows into the reservoir, forming a delta with numerous islands. This article about
12-550: Is a reservoir on the Dnieper river in the Ukrainian oblasts of Poltava , Cherkasy , and Kirovohrad . Named after the city of Kremenchuk , the reservoir is primarily used for irrigation, flood control , fishing, and transport from the ports of Cherkasy and Svitlovodsk . It is the largest reservoir on the Dnieper river, with a length of 149 km, a width of 28 km, an area of 2,250 km , an average depth of six meters, and
16-672: The words it is related to: Lithuanian / Latvian sulà "birch sap", Old Prussian sulo "curdled milk", Norwegian dialectal saula "dirt", Sanskrit súrā "spiritous liquor", and Avestan hurā "intoxicating drink, kumis ". Another etymology of the hydronym Sula is the Turkic suly , 'filled with water, wet'. This article related to a river in Ukraine is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kremenchuk Reservoir The Kremenchuk Reservoir ( Ukrainian : Кременчуцьке водосховище , Kremenchuts’ke Vodoskhovyshche )
#114885