River has always played a crucial role of people's lives.At the dawn of civilization, they were a source of food and drinking water, protected from enemy attacks.Not surprisingly, on the banks of the great waterways like mushrooms after the rain grew cities where history was made.
main river Slavs
This river was known in the ancient world, after the first mention of it belongs to the fifth century.The Greeks called it Borysthenes Slavs - Rep or Slavutych, the Latin name of the river sounds like Danapris.Probably, hence the modern name of the main river of the Slavs - the Dnieper, on the banks of which emerged Kiev - the mother of Russian cities.There are now the largest city in the region, and in the past the most important events.
Source Dnieper rivers Slavic friendship, located on the territory of modern Russia.On the border of the Tver and Smolensk regions, about forty kilometers from the district center of Sychevka Kielce is a small swamp.There is a memorial and a sign that says that this is where the flow begins, which will turn into a powerful waterway bearing its waves through solid rock to the Black Sea.And the river itself flows through the territory of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
With blue brook river begins ...
As we have said before, the source of the Dnieper River is located on the territory of Russia.The nearest village Bocharova concealed by six kilometers.Previously, the village itself was considered Dudkino, which disappeared from the map in the eighties of the last century.But in Bocharov youth is not left, and the village is home to no more than forty people.Buses here hardly walk - it is not economically feasible.But near the place where the source of the Dnieper, to build a church, and at least occasionally, but nevertheless tourists come.It is not surprising, because the places holy to all Slavs, very scenic.Dense forests abound in berries and mushrooms, and in the river full of fish.
Breath stories
So, where are the sources of the Dnieper on the map, we have already found.Now let's talk about what happened on the banks of the river for an amazing long history of mankind.People lived in these places in the Stone Age, as evidenced by numerous archaeological finds.The ancient settlement scientists unearthed just a mile from the Kielce swamp.By the ninth century there was a completely famous and very important way "from the Vikings to the Greeks."
Most tracks on the banks Borisphen leave the twentieth century, namely the Second World War.In autumn 1941 the source of the Dnieper stubbornly defended Krasnoyarsk 119th Infantry Division.In the fierce fighting killed most of the soldiers of the division, which is in memory of grateful descendants later established a memorial slab and obelisk.In the village Aksenino, which currently does not exist, has been set yet another monument - the civilians who burned the Nazis at the turn of 1942-1943.A mile from the start of the majestic river guerrilla camp was located.In the area of Slavic source of pride there are numerous anti-tank ditches, bunkers, bunkers, and the mass graves of fallen soldiers.
Save and save
Source Dnieper today is considered a natural monument of regional significance.In the seventies of the twentieth century there planted pine and Siberian cedar, established a cross, and a pointer.Since 2003, this place decided to equip the complex nature reserve area of 32.3 thousand. Ha, which includes Lavrovskii and Aksenovsky peat Gavrilovo lake of glacial origin.With the blessing of Patriarch Kirill of Vladimir the Great Slavic Foundation creates these protected places the spiritual, historical and cultural center.Already built a temple of the Holy Prince Vladimir the Great, a chapel and a house prior.
Dnieper River: the source and the mouth of
We wrote a lot of the Dnieper River and its origins.But one of the largest rivers of Europe has another attraction, which is worth mentioning.This estuary.Ancient Borisfen flows into Dnipro estuary of the Black Sea.On the way to the river it overcomes a major natural barrier, forming rapids.This problem was solved only shipping in the twentieth century by building a cascade of dams.It Dnieper in Zaporozhye (1927-1932 gg.), Kakhovka HPP (1950-1956 gg.), Kremenchug (1954-1960 gg.), Kiev (1960-1964 gg.), Dnipropetrovsk (1956-1964 gg.), KanevskayaGES (1963-1975 gg.).
Dnieper Delta is made up of a large number of arms and channels.In flooded areas, extending for hundreds of kilometers, it is better not to go.At the mouth of a plurality of low and marshy islands irregular or rounded shape (so-called saucer).The land is desolate, because there is practically no forests.But the grass grow in abundance.This cattails and sedges, but most of the cane, which forms a real thicket.
But it is better for once to see the beauty of the Dnieper, by walking him on a boat than a hundred times to read about it and see photos!
