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21-710: While located in relatively close proximity, the river should not be confused with Western Bug or Bug which flows in opposite direction towards Baltics . The source of the Southern Bug is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volhynian-Podolian Upland , about 145 kilometres (90 miles) from the Polish border, from where it flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary ( Black Sea basin) through the southern steppes (see Granite-steppe lands of Buh park). It

42-580: A (river) bend", and derivatives in Russian búga ("low banks of a river, overgrown with bushes"), Polish bugaj ("bushes or woods in a river valley or on a steep river bank"), Latvian bauga ("marshy place by a river"). The Polish linguist Jan Michał Rozwadowski was explaining that the name derived from the Indo-European root "water", "source", "swamp". The 17th-century French military engineer and geographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan recorded

63-724: A right-bank tributary, by the Dnieper-Bug Canal . The total basin area of the Bug is 38,712 square kilometres (14,947 sq mi) of which half, 19,239 square kilometres (7,428 sq mi) or, 50%, is in Poland. Somewhat more than a quarter, 11,400 square kilometres (4,400 sq mi) or 29%, is in Belarus, and a bit under a quarter, 8,700 square kilometres (3,400 sq mi) or 22% lies in Ukraine. The climate of

84-464: Is 806 kilometres (501 miles) long and drains 63,700 square kilometres (24,600 sq mi). Several regionally important cities and towns in Ukraine are located on the Southern Bug. Beginning in Western Ukraine and moving downstream, in a southeasterly direction, they are: Khmelnytskyi , Khmilnyk , Vinnytsia , Haivoron , Pervomaisk , Voznesensk and Mykolaiv . On several occasions

105-581: Is a major river in Central Europe that flows through Belarus (border), Poland , and Ukraine , with a total length of 774 kilometres (481 mi). A tributary of the Narew , the Bug forms part of the border between Belarus and Poland for 178 kilometres (111 mi) and part of the border between Ukraine and Poland for 185 kilometres (115 mi). The Bug is connected with the Dnieper by

126-611: The Central Council of the Ukrainian People's Republic adopted a law on the "administrative-territorial division of Ukraine", dividing it into regional districts. One of these, Pobozhia (meaning lands of the Boh , Ukrainian : Побожжя ), was in the upstream lands of the Southern Bug, near the source of the river. The main tributaries of the Southern Bug are, from source to mouth (length in parentheses): In October 2020,

147-620: The Dnieper–Bug Canal . Out of its 38,712 square kilometres (14,947 sq mi) drainage basin , half is in Poland, just over a quarter in Belarus, and slightly under a quarter in Ukraine. According to Zbigniew Gołąb , the Slavic hydronym Bug as *bugъ / *buga derives from the Proto-Indo-European verbal root *bheug- (with cognates in old Proto-Germanic *bheugh- etc. with the meaning 'bend, turn, move away'), with

168-697: The Narew . It flows from the Lviv Oblast in the west of Ukraine northwards into the Volyn Oblast , before passing along the Ukraine-Polish and Polish-Belarusian border and into Poland, where it follows part of the border between the Masovian and Podlaskie Voivodeships . It joins the Narew at Serock , a few kilometers upstream of the artificial Zegrze Lake . This part of the Narew between

189-729: The Vistula Land and Russia proper (1867–1913), and of the Regency Kingdom of Poland and BPR (1917–1918). The Bug also formed part of the dividing line between German Wehrmacht and Soviet Red Army zones specified in a secret clause of the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty of 28 September 1939 following the September 1939 invasion of Poland in the Second World War . The Bug is a left tributary of

210-422: The Bug basin is temperate . The basin experiences annual high-water levels during spring flooding due to thawing snow, after which a low flow period starts and lasts until October or mid-November. Occasional summer floods often occur in the headlands, where mountains influence favorable flash-flood conditions. In Autumn the water level increases are inconsiderable; in some years they do not happen at all. During

231-501: The Southern Bug upstream of Mykolaiv, to facilitate the increasing grain export from Ukraine. As of April 2018, freight navigation was renewed between the estuary and a newly built grain terminal in the village of Prybuzhany, Voznesensk Raion , in the center of the Mykolaiv Oblast . 46°59′N 31°58′E  /  46.983°N 31.967°E  / 46.983; 31.967 Western Bug The Bug or Western Bug

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252-594: The Southern Bug was stocked with three hundred and fifty kilograms of Hungarian carp and 50 kilograms of silver carp at Khmelnytskyi. The Varvarivskyi Bridge over Southern Bug in Mykolaiv is a swing bridge (facilitating ship building ) with Europe 's largest span (134 m). It is also the southernmost bridge over the river. The river is technically navigable for dozens of kilometers up from its mouth; several river ports (such as Mykolaiv ) exist. In 2011, plans were announced to revive commercial freight navigation on

273-532: The border between Orthodox (Ukrainians, Belarusians) and Catholic (Poles) peoples. The Bug was part of the frontier between the territories occupied by Austria, Russia, and Prussia after the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, the southern half of the eastern border of the Duchy of Warsaw and Lithuanian Provisional Governing Commission (1809–1815), Congress Poland and Russia proper (1815–1867), of

294-759: The confluence and the Vistula is sometimes referred to as Bugo-Narew but on December 27, 1962, the Prime Minister of Poland's act abolished the name "Bugo-Narew", soon after Zegrze Lake was completed. On the Bug, a few kilometers from the Vysokaye in Kamenets District of the Brest Region , is the westernmost point of Belarus . It is also connected with the Dnieper via the Mukhavets ,

315-594: The hypothetical original meaning 'pertaining to a (river) bend', and derivatives in Russian búga 'low banks of a river overgrown with bushes', Polish bugaj 'bushes or woods in a river valley or on a steep river bank', and Latvian bauga 'marshy place by a river'. Traditionally (e.g., by the drafters of the Curzon Line ), the Bug River has been considered the ethnographic border between the East and West as well as

336-503: The name of the river as Bog . From the 16th to the 18th centuries most of the south of Ukraine was under Turkish imperial domination and the colonists renamed the river using their language to the Aq-su , meaning the "White river". Indigenous Slavic toponyms were re-established after the conquest of the Pontic region from Turkish domination in the 17th and 18th centuries. On March 6, 1918,

357-667: The river served as an international border. At least following the 1768–1774 Russo-Turkish War , and more narrowly the Chyhyryn campaigns, the river became a border between the Imperial Russia and Ottomans. Some 200 years later between 1941 and 1944 during World War II the Southern Bug formed the border between German-occupied Ukraine ( Reichskommissariat Ukraine ) and the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine, called Transnistria . Herodotus (c. 484–425 BCE) refers to

378-731: The river using its ancient Greek name: Hypanis. During the Migration Period of the 5th to the 8th centuries CE the Southern Bug represented a major obstacle to all the migrating peoples in the area. In his work Getica , Jordanes calls the river Bogossola . Mentioning of Bogossola could also be found in works of Guido of Pisa . The long-standing local Slavic name of the river, Boh ( Cyrillic : Бог), according to Zbigniew Gołąb as *bugъ / *buga derives from Indo-European verbal root *bheug- (having cognates in old Germanic word *bheugh- etc. with meaning of "bend, turn, moves away"), with hypothetical original meaning of "pertaining to

399-414: The winter the river can have temporary ice-outs that sometimes provoke ice jams, causing an increase of the level up to 2 metres (6.6 ft). The resultant water levels are changeable due to the instability of ice cover. Significant floods during the last 60 years in Belarus were registered in 1958, 1962, 1967, 1971 and 1974. The largest spring flood was observed in 1979, when the maximum water discharge

420-484: Was 19.1 cubic metres per second on 24 March 1979, at the village of Chersk ; 166 cubic metres per second near the village of Tyukhinichi ( Lyasnaya river) on 31 March 1979; and 269 cubic metres per second near Brest on 1 April 1979. A similar spring flood occurred in 1999 when the spring run-off in March–May exceeded the average annual value by almost half again (48%). The last time the Bug flooded in Poland and Ukraine

441-792: Was in 2010 and the last time it flooded in Belarus was in 1999. Right bank Inland port An inland port is a port on an inland waterway , such as a river , lake , or canal , which may or may not be connected to the sea. The term "inland port" is also used to refer to a dry port . The United States Army Corps of Engineers publishes biannually a list of such locations and for this purpose states that "inland ports" are ports that are located on rivers and do not handle deep draft ship traffic . The list includes ports such as St. Louis , Cincinnati , Pittsburgh , Kansas City , and Memphis . A dense network of inland waterways including ports exists also in Europe (France, Germany, Poland, Russia,

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