Shovta
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Shovta Жовта |
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| location | Ukraine | ||||||
| River system | Dnepr | ||||||
| Drain over | Inhulez → Dnepr → Black Sea | ||||||
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Mychajlivka , Kirovohrad Oblast 48 ° 35 ′ 37 ″ N , 33 ° 30 ′ 43 ″ E |
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| Source height | 193 m | ||||||
| muzzle | in the Inhulez coordinates: 48 ° 12 '9 " N , 33 ° 22' 56" E 48 ° 12 '9 " N , 33 ° 22' 56" E |
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| Mouth height | 90 m | ||||||
| Height difference | 103 m | ||||||
| Bottom slope | 1.7 ‰ | ||||||
| length | 61 km | ||||||
| Catchment area | 490 km² | ||||||
| Medium-sized cities | Schowti Wody | ||||||
| Communities | Schowte , Marjaniwka , Hanniwka | ||||||
The Shovta (Ukrainian Жовта ; Russian Жёлтая / Schjoltaja ) is a non-navigable, 61 km long left tributary of the Inhulez in the center of Ukraine and thus belongs to the river system of the Dnepr . Its catchment area has a size of 490 km² and its gradient is 1.6 m per kilometer. It is located in a 2.5 km wide, trapezoidal valley.
Surname
The name Schowta (German "the yellow") was given to the river due to its yellow color due to iron oxide , which it carried with it as it ran through iron ore deposits. Other sources cite the loamy subsoil as the cause of the yellow color.
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course
The river rises in Rayon Oleksandrija near the village Mychajliwka in the oblast Kirowohrad and first flows, in parallel with the approximately 10 km to the west flowing Selena , in a southerly direction in, for oblast Dnipropetrowsk gehörendem Rayon Pjatychatky . Here it flows through the village Schowte , where it is dammed to a lake, on whose dam the highway M 04 / E 50 runs, to the south of the city of Zhovti Vody and then in a southwesterly direction of flow in the village Hanniwka back into the Oblast Kirovohrad ( Petrowe Raion ) flow. In the village of Iskriwka , immediately below the Iskriwka reservoir , the Shovta finally flows into a tributary of the Dnepr , the Inhulez .
history
On May 16, 1648, the first battle of the Khmelnytskyi uprising between the Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossacks under Bohdan Khmelnyzky and the Polish-Lithuanian troops under Stefan Potocki took place on the Shovta .
From 1805 to 1920 the Shovta formed the border between Ujesd Alexandrija in the Cherson Governorate to the west and Ujesd Verkhnedneprovsk in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate to the east .
Others
In the water of the Schowta, in its lower course, downstream of the uranium mines of Schowti Vody, increased radioactive levels can be measured.
Web links
source
- Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia on leksika.com.ua (Ukrainian)
- Geographical encyclopedia of Ukraine in 3 volumes / Editing: AM Marinitsch u. a.