Bjaresina
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Bjaresina Бярэзіна, Березина (Beresina) |
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| location | Belarus | |
| River system | Dnepr | |
| Drain over | Dnepr → Black Sea | |
| source | around 10 km north of Dokschyzy in the Bjaresina National Park 55 ° 1 ′ 44 ″ N , 27 ° 44 ′ 9 ″ E |
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| muzzle | a good 50 km west-northwest of Homel in the Dnepr Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '59 " N , 30 ° 15' 1" E 52 ° 32 '59 " N , 30 ° 15' 1" E
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| length | 613 km | |
| Catchment area | 24,500 km² | |
| Discharge at the gauge near the mouth |
MQ |
145 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Bobr , Klewa , Olsa , Ala | |
| Right tributaries | Hajna , Swislatsch | |
| Big cities | Baryssau , Babruisk | |
| Medium-sized cities | Svetlahorsk | |
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 The Grande Armée crosses the Beresina |
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The Bjaresina ( Belarusian Бярэзіна ; Russian Березина / Beresina ) is a 613 km right tributary of the Dnepr (Belarusian Dnjapro ) in Belarus .
It should not be confused with the much shorter Berezina , which flows mainly in Russia further east and flows into the Dnieper from the right about 200 km upstream, below Smolensk .
course
The river has its source in northern Belarus on the Belarusian ridge . Its source is in the Bjaresina National Park near the town of Lepel . The Bjaresina flows through the country in a north-south direction, among others through Baryssau , Babrujsk and Swetlahorsk . West of Homel ( Gomel ) it flows into the Dnieper .
Tributaries and cities
The most important tributary of the Bjaresina is the Swislatsch ( Swislotsch ), on which the Belarusian capital Minsk is located.
The most important cities on the river include (the names of the cities in brackets according to the second official language, Russian):
- Baryssau ( Borisow )
- Babruysk ( Bobruisk )
- Svetlahorsk ( Svetlogorsk )
history
Charles XII. of Sweden crossed the river with his army on June 25, 1708 during the Great Northern War against Peter the Great .
The river gained world historical fame through the Battle of the Beresina from November 26th to 28th, 1812 during the dramatic retreat of the Grande Armée under Napoleon from the troops of Tsar Alexander I.
During the Second World War , the village of Ala on the Bjaresina was attacked by German soldiers and completely burned down. In the Soviet summer offensive of 1944 (→ Operation Bagration ), the 4th Army of the German Wehrmacht was destroyed after crossing the river in a pocket east of Minsk.
Trivia
In the 19th century the name of the river was proverbial: to see something "as a crossing over the Berezina" meant to take it deadly serious.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Article Bjaresina in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ^ Theodor Fontane : L'Adultera , Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin 1988, p. 33.