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  Dniester River
River (107 km) with the Mizunka River and the Sukil River, the
River (92 km), the Shchyrets River, the Zubria River, the
River (162 km), the Rusava River, the Yahorlyk River (173 km), and the Kuchurhan River (123 km).
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/D/N/DniesterRiver.htm   (1237 words)

  
 Dniester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe.
The Dniester is known in Polish as Dniestr, Ukrainian Дністер (Dnister), Romanian Nistru, Russian Днестр (Dnestr), and during antiquity was called Tyras in Latin.
Dniester expedition of the Lion Society (Ukrainian language) - boat touring on the Dniester.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dnestr   (146 words)

  
 Dniester budget
The river Dniester enters the estuary via two straits: the arm of the Dniester River and the short (3km) and district (65m) Turunchuk Channel.
The Dniester River basin and the estuary area are the regions of high agricultural, hydrotechnical and port economical activities.
Timchenko, 1990) is negligible compared to the river discharge and was assumed to be 0 in the budget.
data.ecology.su.se /MNODE/Europe/Med_Aegean_BlackSea/Ukraine/Dniester/dniesterbud.htm   (836 words)

  
 Maps
Bessarabia is bordered by the Prut River on the west, the Dniester River on the east, and the Black Sea on the south.
The western portion of the former Province of Kherson, the Odessa District is bordered by the Dniester River on the west, the Nikolayev Oblast on the east, and the Black Sea on the south.
This map covers the area from the Neckar River and Worms in the south, the Rhine River and Koblenz in the west to Kassel in the north and Eschwege and Thuringia in the east.
www.ahsgr.org /maps.htm   (2406 words)

  
 Dniester - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The river Dniester (Polish: Dniestr, Ukrainian: Дністер, Romanian: Nistru, Russian: Днестр, Latin: Tyras) is a river in Eastern Europe.
Dniester watershed resource maps (http://www.earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/maps/watersheds/eu6.pdf) (PDF) - Land cover and use variables, basin indicators, biodiversity information and indicators.
Dniester expedition of the Lion Society (http://geocities.com/dnistrove) (Ukrainian language) - boat touring on the Dniester.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Dniestr   (154 words)

  
 Smotrych River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
River that flows southward for 168 km through
With a width of 10–15 m (40 m at its widest point), the river is particularly notable for its tall banks, which give it a ravinelike appearance.
A small hydroelectric station is situated on it, as well as the city of
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/S/M/SmotrychRiver.htm   (76 words)

  
 Dniester River --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The Dniester, or Dnestr, River is the second longest river in Ukraine and the main water artery of Moldova.
river of southwestern Ukraine and of Moldova, rising on the north side of the Carpathian Mountains and flowing south and east for 840 miles (1,352 km) to the Black Sea near Odessa.
The city is one of the largest and oldest in the Dniester River basin, dating to at least the 11th century.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274026   (768 words)

  
 Read about Dniester at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Dniester and learn about Dniester here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Russian: Днестр, Latin: Tyras) is a river in Eastern Europe.
Dniester watershed resource maps (http://www.earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/maps/watersheds/eu6.pdf) (PDF) - Land cover and use variables, basin indicators, biodiversity information and indicators.
Dniester expedition of the Lion Society (http://geocities.com/dnistrove) (Ukrainian language) - boat touring on the Dniester.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Dniester   (130 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Vistula River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Vistula (Polish Wisła), is the longest river in Poland.
During that time the Vistula River ran into the Mare Suebicum, which was later called Baltic Sea.
The Vistula river is only a short portage from the Dnieper River, and thence to the Black Sea.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vistula-River   (495 words)

  
 Moldovan, Dniester ministers discuss settlement - Russian News - News From Russia
High-ranking Moldovan and breakaway Dniester region officials have appeared live on the same TV show simultaneously for the first time since the 1992 armed conflict in the separatist region.
Are there opinions that the Dniester problem can be solved by turning the region into an autonomous region, by creating a confederation, or maybe somebody proposes to fight until the end and stop only when the republic is recognized.
The variant of settling the Dniester conflict based on the asymmetric federation is quite realistic.
www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_238414.php   (3685 words)

  
 Civil Society Is Concerned With The Situation Of The Dniester - Welcome Moldova Magazine
The Dniester River is a transboundary watercourse with a length of 1380 km, which starts in the Ukrainian Carpathians, streaming through Moldova and coming again to Ukraine near the Black Sea.
They organized several joint expeditions along the river to raise public awareness, published numerous articles in newspapers and three books about the unfavorable ecological situation that has been created, and organized several international conferences on water, health and biodiversity issues related to the Dniester.
It is rather surprising that, in spite of the vital and primary role of the Dniester River for the life of the whole region, financial means to solve its environmental problems spent by the International Community were more limited even than for the neighboring small transboundary Prut River.
www.welcome-moldova.com /articles/dniester_river.shtml   (978 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Podolia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Podolia lies: south of Volhynia west of the Kyiv region northeast of Moldova, across the Dniester River e...
Two large rivers, with numerous tributaries, drain the region: the Dniester, which forms its boundary with Moldova and is navigable throughout its length, and the Southern Bug, which flows almost parallel to the former in a higher, sometimes swampy, valley, interrupted in several places by rapids.
Nestor in the Primary Chronicle mentions that the Bujanes and Dulebes occupied the Bug River, while the Tivertsi and Ugliches, apparently all four Slav tribes, settled on the Dniester.
www.ipedia.com /podolia.html   (721 words)

  
 dniester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Dniester River Valley have many different potential geosites candidates for the International Union of Geological Sciences global inventory of the Earth's geological heritage, or GEOSITES database (Johansson et al., 1998).
The Dniester River canyon is partly flooded by reservoir waters.
The middle part of the Dniester river basin covers the Khmelnitskiy, Tchernivtsy and Ternopil districts of the Ukraine and is characterized by a platform type structure of the Earth's crust.
www.progeo.se /news/3_2003/dniester.htm   (1317 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Dniester River
Trans-Dniester (the region east of the Dniester River) has a population of over 700,000, the majority of whom are of Ukrainian and Russian descent (whereas ethnic Moldovans speak a Romanian dialect).
Here along the banks of the Dniester River, a dark expanse of dirty water lined by dilapidated buildings, a new chapter is being written in the 13-year conflict between Russia and Moldova over who should control the strip of land known as Transdniestria.
In the east, the sliver of land along the Dniester river, known as Transdniestria, populated mainly by Russians and Ukrainians, has declared de facto independence.
geography.surfwax.com /files/Dniester_River.html   (741 words)

  
 Dniester cooperation to make drinking water safer - pr2004/04env_p16e.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The river Dniester, one of Eastern Europe’s largest, is facing serious environmental problems due to pollution and the impact of the water flow regime.
The transboundary character of the river has so far made it difficult to solve the environmental problems and to improve the river’s management.
The project, financed by Sweden, Switzerland and the United States, brings together government and NGO representatives from the two riparian countries to study the condition of the Dniester basin and agree on the way forward to strengthen collaboration and to improve the river’s management.
www.unece.org /press/pr2004/04env_p16e.htm   (438 words)

  
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The row broke out after the Dniester authorities threatened last week to close several Moldovan schools in the region for using the Latin script, which was adopted in Moldova after independence in 1991, despite an order by the Dniester officials to switch back to Cyrillic.
After the Dniester authorities sealed off a (boarding) school yesterday (26 July), the children used force their way (past Dniester policemen) to enter the building in order to have their meal.
(Dniester policeman) The filming is allowed only with the consent of the Joint Control Commission (a body consisting of representatives from Moldova, the Dniester region, Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE in charge of monitoring the security zone between Dniester and Moldova).
www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art4223.txt   (687 words)

  
 "Eco-Tiras" International Environmental Association of River Keepers
From September 2004 the governmental working groups of Moldova and Ukraine in frames of the project managing by OSCE and UNECE, are working on drafting of the report reflecting common view on environmental status and problems of the transboundary Dniester River basin and ways toward sustainable management of natural resources in the river basin.
In the last decade of August 2005 the ‘Eco-TIRAS’ organized with support of Norwegian Embassy three seminars in Dniester basin (on the North, South and in the central part of Moldova) to discuss this document with NGOs and other stakeholders.
The Dniester River is the river of first importance for Moldova and the second major river for Ukraine.
www.eco-tiras.org   (777 words)

  
 ZALISHCHYKY ON-LINE. Zaleszczyki / Zaleshchiki. Town in Western Ukraine (former Austria - Hungary and Poland). Located ...
But on other side of the river, there is already Chernivtsi province (historic area of Bukovyna), namely villages of Khreshchatyk and Zvenyachyn.
River flooding in 1863, 1871, and 1927 caused considerable damage.
In 1960, my uncle Seweryn (he was very known in Zaleszczyki, he used to get all politicians and others across the Dniester river to Romania, he "boxed", "good swimmer" and always in trouble with police for "sticking up and hiding the Jewish friends my family had) brought all of us from Poland, to Canada.
www.personal.ceu.hu /students/97/Roman_Zakharii/zalishchyky.htm   (1836 words)

  
 Resources on the Seine River from academic institutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This famous home of kings was one of the many exciting stops along the Seine River made by SU alumni and friends on a 12-day river cruise sponsored by the...
News and Notes page2: This famous home of kings was one of the many exciting stops along the Seine River made by SU alumni and friends on a 12-day river cruise sponsored by the...
River Seine:...the trees in the boulevards and parks and flows along the quays is the very breath of Paris, whispering to us many of her secrets, so the River Seine (sane) is...
mongabay.org /conservation/Seine_River.htm   (996 words)

  
 Dniester
The Dniester formed the Romanian-Soviet border from 1918 to 1940, when the USSR regained Bessarabia.
Trans-Dniester Region - Trans-Dniester Region or Transnistria,region in E Moldova, between the Dniester River and the...
Mogilev-Podolski, city, E Ukraine, at the confluence of the Dniester and...
www.factmonster.com /id/A0815715   (166 words)

  
 Crimea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This happened in 1480 and it is considered to mark the final liberation of Russia from the Mongol yoke.
However, the Ottomans by then were also adept at the use of cannon, which they deployed to bolster its Crimean vassal and there was a standoff over Astrakhan until Ivan IV the Terrible came along and finally put an end to khanates of Kazan (1552) and Astrakhan (1556).
By the Treaty of Jassy, which concluded the Russo-Ottoman war of 1787-1792, the Russian frontier was extended to the Dniester River.
www.worldhistoryplus.com /c/crimea.html   (626 words)

  
 LookSmart - Directory - Dniester River, CIS And Baltic Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Take a look at the course and facts of this river which is 850 miles long.
Provides facts and course of this river which is the second longest river in Ukraine.
Join the Zeal community and help build the "Dniester River, CIS And Baltic Region" Directory Category.
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 www.dniester.org
The project has been launched to enhance regional cooperation between the Dniester riparian states, Ukraine, and Moldova, including its Transdniestrian region, on the integrated management of the Dniester river basin.
The project also aims to draw international attention to the problems in the river basin.
The project is implemented by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
www.dniester.org   (77 words)

  
 Moldova names Ramsar site along Dniester River
The Dniester includes wide, shallow segments here with little islands, small rivers and short creeks feeding the stream and forming steep canyons.
Native communities of light forest such as fresh oak, damp oak and Pinus pallasiana forests are covering the steep limestone slopes of the Dniester River canyon.
Agriculture provides the main sources of economic life, supplemented by livestock farming and traditional fishing, which is losing its economic value as fish resources became scarce as a result of strong variations of discharge levels from the Novodnestrovsk hydropower station.
www.ramsar.org /wn/w.n.moldova_unguri.htm   (342 words)

  
 Moldova   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It sided with Germany in the Second World War and in 1947 the USSR annexed Moldavia as far as the Prut river and eastern Bukovina.
Eastern Moldova, on the left bank of the Dniester, is mainly peopled by Russians, who, with Russian military backing, created a statelet-within-a-statelet called Trans-Dniestra, formally still part of Moldova.
Due to its de facto division it is difficult to have reliable economic statistic for Moldova, but an estimated per capita GDP is $2,200.
www.worldhistoryplus.com /m/moldova.html   (408 words)

  
 Influence of the Rezina-Rybnitsa Industrial Complex on the Content of Mercury (II), Copper (II), Lead (II), and Cadmium ...
The contents of mercury (II), copper (II), lead (II), and cadmium (II) in abiotic components of the environment (water, suspended matter, bottom deposits) of the Dubossary (Dubasari) Reservoir on the Dniester (Nistru) River, Republic of Moldova, was studied in 2000−2001.
It has been demonstrated that the maximal concentrations of the metals under study were in the area comprising the Rezina−Rybnitsa industrial complex that produces 4.4 million tons of cement and 0.7 million tons of metal annually.
The metals are transferred into the reservoir in the dissolved and suspended forms with atmospheric precipitate.
dx.doi.org /10.1615/HydrobJ.v40.i6.80   (195 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Country profiles | Regions and territories: Trans-Dniester
The separatist region of Trans-Dniester - a narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Ukrainian border - proclaimed independence from Moldova in 1990.
The international community does not recognise its self-declared statehood, and the territory, which remains in a tense stand-off with Moldova, is often portrayed as a hotbed of crime.
In the post World War II carve-up of the region, Moscow created Moldova's forerunner, the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, from two disparate elements: the mainly Russian-speaking Dniester region, formerly an autonomous part of Ukraine, and the neighbouring region of Bessarabia, which had been part of Romania from 1918-1940.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/country_profiles/3641826.stm   (532 words)

  
 Hydroecological Characteristics of the Transborder Section of the Middle Reaches of the Dniester River - Begell House ...
Hydroecological Characteristics of the Transborder Section of the Middle Reaches of the Dniester River - Begell House Inc.
The ecological state of the transborder section of the middle reaches of the Dniester river is dealt with in the paper.
The influence of the operation of the Dniester Waterworks upon the physical, chemical and hydrobiological indices of the river water, as well as upon the state of its fish fauna, was assessed.
www.begellhouse.com /journals/38cb2223012b73f2,68d915d00ba2651c,568ad1431f74d055.html   (162 words)

  
 Odessa --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It stands on a shallow indentation of the Black Sea coast at a point approximately 19 miles (31 km) north of the Dniester River estuary and about 275 miles (443 km) south of Kiev.
The oblast is bordered by the Black Sea on the east and southeast, by Moldova on the west, and by the Romanian frontier on the Danube River delta on the southwest.
The oblast is divided by the Dniester River estuary, which lies across its narrow “waist.” The southwestern part of the oblast is a coastal plain that slopes gently to...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056758   (645 words)

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