Stokhid River
| Stokhid River | |
|---|---|
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| Physical characteristics | |
| River mouth | Pripyat River |
| Length | 188 km (117 mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Basin size | 3,150 km2 (1,220 sq mi) |
The Stokhid is a river in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine, approximately 188 km (117 mi) long. It is a right tributary of the Pripyat River.
Description
Stokhid is the longest and cleanest river in Volyn. The length is 188 km, and the runoff is 3125 km². The valley in the upper reaches is clearly delineated, up to 4-4.5 km wide, below - indistinct, up to 7-10 km wide. The floodplain is two-sided, swampy, wide from 0,4 km (in the upper reaches) to 2,5 km (in the lower reaches). The heights can be traced mainly to the upper reaches, where the width is 20-25 m, and the depth is 0.5-1.5 m. The river (especially below the village Zayachivka) is divided into numerous sleeves (hence the name - "stoop") in the width of 5- 15 m (at most - 60 m), depth up to 8-26 m (on plyas). The largest depth is 16.4 m, which is located between Lyubeshiv and the village. Zinov, the depth formed by the sources that feed the river; there are many elders. The largest settlement near the river is the city of Lyubeshiv. On a length of 50 km the river is deepened and straightened. Power mixed with the advantage of snow; freezes in December, crashes in March. The mineralization of the water of the river Stokhid is on average: spring flood - 440 mg / dm³; summer-autumn measurements - 465 mg / dm³; winter limits - 559 mg / dm³. [1]
Location
Stokit originates near the village Semerinskoe, Volyn Polissya, within the Volyn Highlands. Flows mainly to the northeast. Falls into the Pripyat near the southern outskirts of the village Svalovichy. Tributaries: Stobihivka, Yasinovka, Loknitsa (left); Aspen, Cheryah, Hryvka, Chervysh (right). Above the river is the district center of Lubeshivand many villages of Lokachinsky, Turiyskoye, Rozhyshchensky, Kovelsky, Manevytsky, Kamen-Kashirsky and Lyubeshivsky districts.
Sources
Geographical Encyclopedia of Ukraine: 3 t. / Editorial Board: O. M. Marinych (repl. Ed.) And others. - K.: "Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia" by them. M.P. Bazhana, 1989. Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies: Dictionary part: [in 11 vols] / Scientific society named after Shevchenko; Goal. Ed. Prof. Dr. Volodymyr Kubiyovych. - Paris; New York: Young Life; Lviv; Kyiv: Globus, 1955-2003. Peter Kravchuk "The book of records of Volyn", Lyubeshiv. 2005 ISBN 966-361-079-4. Peter Kravchuk Conflict around the dam
Interesting Facts
Above the Stokhod was the front line from June 1916 to August 1917 between the Austro-Hungarian-German and Russian troops. In the First World, after the Brusilov breakthrough (the main hostilities took place within the Volyn region), along the river Stokhid and Pripyat there was a near-year line between the Russian and Austro-German troops. Therefore, on the left bank of the set of trenches and concrete ditches. A network of narrow-gauge railways for the transport of ammunition was created to these fortifications. On the right bank were Russian troops - they did not build concrete fortifications - only wooden, therefore, nothing has survived. For information: during the Brusilov breakthrough, about 1 million Austro-Germans and 500,000 Russian troops died. All the surrounding villages around Stokhid were completely destroyed. Russian troops tried to break through Stokhid again, but in vain. In the years of the First World War, across the Volhynia, several times the front line between the Russians, on the one hand, and the Austro-German troops, on the other. In June 1916, Russian troops under the command of General Brusilov broke through the front, took Lutsk and pushed the Austro-German troops to the Stokhid River line. For more than a year, the front held on this line, resulting in the destruction of many nearby settlements. The swampy valleys and banks of the Stokhid River became the brotherly grave of thousands of soldiers and officers and the Russian Imperial Guard, and the Army of the Austro-Hungarian-Germanic. This operation is called historians by the "Stokhidsky" meat grinder. From the stories of the old-timers of the surrounding villages it is known that in the late 20s of the 20th century a group of men arrived from Germany in the impoverished area, who excavated the fraternal and single graves of their compatriots and reburied them in a cemetery in the village of Polyana, 2 km from the Loviš . In the First World on the Pripyat and Stokhod, the Austro-German Defense Line was held. In these places there are many concrete ditches, fortifications, even a fort on the island of Stokhod. In the village, the Proponents of a lot of donates remained in the cities of the peasants. The river flows through the National Nature Park "Pripyat-Stokhid".
External links
- Article in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Coordinates: 51°51′27″N 25°38′03″E / 51.85750°N 25.63417°E