Dnieper#Names

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The river is also sometimes called by the Russian name Dnepr{{Cite web |title=Dnepr |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dnepr |access-date=2023-12-03 |website=Collins English Dictionary |publisher=HarperCollins}}{{Cite web |title=Dnepr |url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/Dnepr |access-date=2023-12-03 |website=Dictionary.com (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)}} ({{Lang|ru|Днепр}},{{sfn|Felecan|Bughesiu|2021|p=406: "To Skythians [...] are traditionally ascribed Russia's oldest surviving toponyms—river names Дон (Don) and Днепр (Dnepr, Dnieper)"}} pre-revolutionary spelling {{Langx|ru|Днѣпръ|translit=Dněpr|label=none}}).{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hSaJpwecqZIC&pg=PA20 | title=Днѣпр и приднѣпровье: Описаніе губерній, смоленкой, Минской. Черниговской, Киевской, Полтавской, Екатеринославской, Херсонской, Таврической и Курской| last1=Турбин| first1=Сергей Иванович| year=1879}}The initial D in Dnieper is generally silent when pronounced in English, although it may be sounded: {{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|iː|p|ə(r)}}{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Dnieper|access-date=25 July 2018}} or {{IPAc-en|d|ə|ˈ|n|iː|p|ə(r)}}.{{Cite dictionary |title=Dnieper |dictionary=Lexico UK English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Dnieper |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202094055/https://www.lexico.com/definition/dnieper |archive-date=2020-12-02 |url-status=dead}}

Dnipro derives from {{langx|uk|Дніпро|translit=Dnipro}}.{{Cite book |last=Cybriwsky |first=Roman A. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1038735219 |title=Along Ukraine's river : a social andenvironmental history of the Dnipro |publisher=Central European University Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-963-386-205-6 |location=Budapest |pages=7 |language=en |oclc=1038735219 |quote=Much of the world knows the Dnipro only as the Dnieper, a name based on the Russian-language Dnepr and widely used before Ukraine achieved its independence in 1991, in concert with the fall of the Soviet Union. “Dnipro” is the Ukrainian-language word for the river, and is now its official name for international usage.}} The English pronunciation is {{IPAc-en|d|ə|ˈ|n|iː|p|r|əʊ}}.[https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dnipro Dnipro] www.dictionary.com The Ukrainian name has a rare form {{Langx|uk|Дніпр|translit=Dnipr|label=none}} and rare dialectal {{Langx|uk|Дніпер|translit=Dniper|label=none}}.{{Cite book |last=Runyc'kyj |first=Jaroslav B. |title=An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language |publisher=Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences and Ukrainian Language Association |year=1982 |volume=II |location=Ottawa |pages=154–56 |language=en}} The Middle Ukrainian form attested in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries was {{Langx|uk|Днѣпръ|translit=Dnǐpr|label=none}}. The city of Dnipro is named for the river.

In Belarusian, the river is called {{langx|be|Дняпро|translit=Dniapro|label=none}}, or {{langx|be|Днепр|Dniepr|label=none}}.Блакітная кніга Беларусі: Энцыклапедыя. — Мінск: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя, 1994. — С. 144. — 415 с. — 10 000 экз.

These names are all cognate, deriving from Old East Slavic {{lang|orv|Дънѣпръ}} (Dŭněprŭ). The origin of this name is disputed but generally derived from either Sarmatian *{{lang|xsc|Dānu Apara}} ("Farther River") in parallel with the Dniester ("Nearer River") or from Scythian *{{lang|xsc|Dānu Apr}} ("Deep River") in reference to its lack of fords,{{cite book |last1=Mallory |first1=J. P. |first2=Victor H. |last2=Mair |title=The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West |location=London |publisher=Thames and Hudson |year=2000 |page=106 |isbn=0-500-05101-1 }}[http://i.ironau.ru/pdf/osjazfolk1949.pdf Абаев В. И. Осетинский язык и фольклор (tr "Ossetian language and folklore"). Moscow: Publishing house of Soviet Academy of Sciences, 1949. p. 236] from which was also derived the Late Antique name of the river, {{lang|grc|Δάναπρις}} {{lang|la|Danapris}}, as found in the Ravenna Cosmography.{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology|editor-first=William|editor-last=Smith|author-first=Philip|author-last=Smith|title=BORY´STHENES|place=London|publisher=John Murray|year=1854}}{{sfn|Felecan|Bughesiu|2021|p=406}}

The earlier Graeco-Roman name of the river, as attested by Herodotus, was "Borysthenes" ({{langx|grc|Βορυσθενης|translit=Borusthenēs}};{{sfn|Felecan|Bughesiu|2021|p=406}} {{langx|la|Borysthenes}}, {{Langx|uk|Бористен, Борисфен|translit=Borysten, Borysfen}}) and later {{lang|el|Δάναπρις}} Danapris.{{sfn|Felecan|Bughesiu|2021|p=406}} The name Borysthenes was derived from a Scythian name whose form was:

• either {{transliteration|xsc|Baurastāna}}, meaning "yellow place,"{{sfn|Bukharin|2013|p=23}}
• or {{transliteration|xsc|Baurustāna}} meant "place of beavers."{{sfn|Kullanda|2013|p=39-41}}
• this name was linked to the mantle of beaver skins worn by the Iranic water goddess Arəduuī Sūrā Anāhitā, whose epithet of {{transliteration|ae|āp}} ({{langx|ae|{{script|Avst|𐬁𐬞}}|lit=water}}) was connected to the name of the daughter of the river-god Borysthenēs in Scythian mythology, the Earth-and-Water goddess Api, whose own name meant "water."{{sfn|Kullanda|2013|p=39-41}}

Ovid used {{lang|la|Borysthenius}}, an adjective derived from {{lang|la|Borysthenes}}, as the river's poetic Latin name.{{cite encyclopedia|author1-first=Charlton|author1-last=Lewis|author2-first=Charles|author2-last=Short|encyclopedia=A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D.|title=Bŏrysthĕnes, is|place=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1879|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3DBorysthenes}}

The Huns' name for the river, {{transliteration|xhc|Var}}, was derived from Scythian {{transliteration|xsc|*Varu}}, meaning "Broad." This name was connected to the Graeco-Roman name of the Volga river, {{transliteration|en|Oarus}} ({{langx|grc|Οαρος|translit=Oaros}}; {{langx|la|Oarus}}), which was also derived from Scythian {{transliteration|xsc|*Varu}}.{{sfn|Harmatta|1999|p=129}}

In Ukrainian it is also known poetically as {{Langx|uk|Славутич|translit=Slavutych|label=none}} or {{Langx|uk|Славута|translit=Slavuta|label=none}}, from an old name used in Kievan Rus'. This is due to the influence of the Old East Slavic epic The Tale of Igor's Campaign and its modern adaptations on Ukrainian literature. This usage also lent its name to the city of Slavutych, founded in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 to house displaced workers,{{cite book|author1-last = Яцик|author1-first=А. В.|author2-last= Яковлєв|author2-first=Є. О.|author3-last=Осадчук|author3-first=В. О. |title = До питання щодо спуску Київського водосховища (Do pytanni︠a︡ shchodo spusku kyïvsʹkoho vodoskhovyshcha) |editor = А. В. Яцика |place = Kiev |publisher = Оріяни (Oriany)|year = 2002 |pages = 6–12 |isbn = 966-7373-78-9 |language = uk}}{{page needed|date=March 2022}} and to the Slavutych station of the Kyiv Metro.

In Crimean Tatar, the river is known as {{Langx|crh|Özü|label=none|italic=yes}}. In Turkish it is {{Langx|tr|Özü|label=none}} or {{Langx|tr|Özi|label=none}}, which was derived from Ochakiv.{{TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ozu|title=ÖZÜ: Günümüzde Ukrayna sınırları içinde bulunan tarihî bir kale ve şehir.|trans-title=ABSTRACT: A historical castle and city located within the borders of Ukraine today.|author=Temel Öztürk}}

{{see also|List of crossings of the Dnieper River}}

The total length of the river is variously given as {{convert|2145|km|mi}} or {{convert|2201|km|mi|abbr=on}},{{cite book |last=Zastavnyi |first=F. D. |url=https://geoknigi.com/book_view.php?id=798 |title=Physical Geography of Ukraine. Rivers of Ukraine. Dnieper |work= |year=2000 |series=Forum |location=Kyiv}}{{cite book |last1=Masliak |first1=P. |title=Heohrafii︠a︡ Ukraïny |last2=Shyshchenko |first2=P. |work= |year=1998 |isbn=966-7090-06-X |series=Zodiak-eko |location=Kyiv |trans-title=Geography of Ukraine}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.dnieper.org/category/50|title=Website about Dnieper|access-date=6 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221114212/http://www.dnieper.org/category/50|archive-date=21 February 2014|url-status=dead}}Mishyna, Liliana. [http://www.hydrography.com.ua/uf/File/Publicat/vd013.009.pdf Hydrographic research of Dnieper river] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072120/http://www.hydrography.com.ua/uf/File/Publicat/vd013.009.pdf |date=4 March 2016 }}. Derzhhidrohrafiya. of which {{convert|485|km|mi|abbr=on}} are within Russia, {{convert|700|km|mi|abbr=on}} are within Belarus, and {{convert|1095|km|mi|abbr=on}} are within Ukraine. Its basin covers {{convert|504000|km2|mi2}}, of which {{convert|289000|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} are within Ukraine,{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pages\D\N\DnieperRiver.htm |title=Dnieper River |access-date=19 January 2007 |last=Kubiyovych |first=Volodymyr |author-link=Volodymyr Kubiyovych |author2=Ivan Teslia |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Ukraine }} {{convert|118360|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} are within Belarus.

The source of the Dnieper is the sedge bogs (Akseninsky Mokh) of the Valdai Hills in central Russia, at an elevation of {{convert|220|m|abbr=on}}. For {{convert|115|km|mi|abbr=on}} of its length, it serves as the border between Belarus and Ukraine. Its estuary, or liman, used to be defended by the strong fortress of Ochakiv.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}[http://www.baarnhielm.net/~gorbaa/Kartor/Rysslandskartor/Rysslandskartor.htm Sigismund von Herberstein places 'Oczakow' (today's "Ochakiv") on the coast of the Black Sea (Ponti Evxini) in his 1549 map.]www.baarnhielm.net {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090917063113/http://www.baarnhielm.net/~gorbaa/Kartor/Rysslandskartor/Rysslandskartor.htm |date=17 September 2009 }}

The southernmost point in Belarus is on the Dnieper to the south of Kamaryn in Brahin Raion.{{cite web |url = http://landofancestors.com/travel/statistics/geography/235-coordinates-of-the-extreme-points-of-the-state-frontier.html |title = Main Geographic Characteristics of the Republic of Belarus. Coordinates of the extreme points of the state frontier |website = Land of Ancestors |publisher = The Scientific and Production State Republican Unitary Enterprise "National Cadastre Agency" of the State Property Committee of the Republic of Belarus |year = 2011 |access-date= 20 September 2013 }}

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The Dnieper has many tributaries (up to 32,000) with 89 being rivers of 100+ km.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150704120723/http://www.ukrinform.ua/ukr/news/rozkishniy_dnipro_nemae__rivnoii_yomu_riki_2070837 Splendid Dnieper. There is no straighter river]. Ukrinform. 4 July 2015 The main ones are, from its source to its mouth, with left (L) or right (R) bank indicated:

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• Vyazma (L)
• Vop (R)
• Khmost (R)
• Myareya (L)
• Drut (R)
• Berezina (R)
• Sozh (L)
• Pripyat (R)
• Teteriv (R)
• Irpin (R)
• Desna (L)
• Stuhna (R)
• Trubizh (L)
• Ros (R)
• Tiasmyn (R)
• Supii (L)
• Sula (L)
• Psel (L)
• Vorskla (L)
• Oril (L)
• Samara (L)
• Konka (Kherson Oblast)
• Konka (Zaporizhzhia Oblast)
• Bilozerka (L)
• Bazavluk (R)
• Inhulets (R)

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Many small direct tributaries also exist, such as, in the Kyiv area, the Syrets (right bank) in the north of the city, the historically significant Lybid (right bank) passing west of the centre, and the Borshahivka (right bank) to the south.

The water resources of the Dnieper basin compose around 80% of the total for all Ukraine.

File:Дніпрові пороги 1915.jpg

File:Tractus Borysthenis vulgo Dniepr et Niepr Dicti, à Kiovia ufque ad Bouzin, Willem Blaeu (Amsterdam, 1662).jpg

The Dnieper Rapids were part of the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks, first mentioned in the Kyiv Chronicle.{{clarify|date=April 2018}} The route was probably established in the late eighth and early ninth centuries and gained significant importance from the tenth until the first third of the eleventh century. On the Dnieper the Varangians had to portage their ships round seven rapids, where they had to be on guard for Pecheneg nomads.

Along this middle flow of the Dnieper, there were 9 major rapids (although some sources cite a smaller number), obstructing almost the whole width of the river, about 30 to 40 smaller rapids, obstructing only part of the river, and about 60 islands and islets.

After the Dnieper hydroelectric station was built in 1932, they were inundated by Dnieper Reservoir.

There are a number of canals connected to the Dnieper:

• The Dnipro – Donbas Canal;
• The Dnipro – Kryvyi Rih Canal;
• The Kakhovka Irrigation System (including Kakhovka Canal, SE Kherson Oblast);
• The Krasnoznamianka Irrigation System (SW Kherson Oblast);
• The North Crimean Canal—will largely solve the water problem of the peninsula, especially in the arid northern and eastern Crimea;
• The Inhulets Irrigation System.

The river is part of the quagga mussel's native range.{{cite web|last=Benson|first=AJ|title=Dreissena rostriformis bugensis Andrusov, 1897 |trans-title= |url=https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?speciesid=95|work=Nonindigenous Aquatic Species|publisher=United States Geological Survey|access-date=2 May 2014}} The mussel has been accidentally introduced around the world, where it has become an invasive species.

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The city of Kherson lies on the northern bank, upstream of the Dnieper delta, before the Dnieper meets the Southern Bug river in the Dnieper–Bug estuary.

Nowadays the Dnieper River suffers from anthropogenic influence resulting in numerous emissions of pollutants.{{cite journal |first1=V. |last1=Snytko |first2=V. |last2=Shirokova |first3=N. |last3=Ozerova |first4=O. |last4=Romanova |first5=A. |last5=Sobisevich |url=https://istina.msu.ru/download/72648647/1dtpjo:9hv28p6sdrCFiJq4csV-mv7yymA/ |title=Hydrological situation of the Upper Dnieper |journal=GeoConference SGEM |year=2017 |volume=17 |issue=31 |pages=379–384 }} The Dnieper is close to the Prydniprovsky Chemical Plant radioactive dumps (near Kamianske) and susceptible to leakage of its radioactive waste. The river is also close to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station (Chernobyl Exclusion Zone) which is located next to the mouth of the Pripyat River.

Almost {{convert|2000|km|abbr=on}} of the river is navigable (to the city of Dorogobuzh). The Dnieper is important for transportation in the economy of Ukraine.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}} Its reservoirs have large ship locks, allowing vessels of up to {{convert|270|x|18|m|ft}} access as far as the port of Kyiv, and thus are an important transportation corridor.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} The river is used by passenger vessels as well. Inland cruises on the rivers Danube and Dnieper have had a growing market in recent decades.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

Upstream from Kyiv, the Dnieper receives the water of the Pripyat River. This navigable river connects to the Dnieper-Bug canal, the link with the Bug River. Historically, a connection with the Western European waterways was possible, but a weir without any ship lock near the town of Brest, Belarus, has interrupted this international waterway. Poor political relations between Western Europe and Belarus mean there is little likelihood of reopening this waterway in the near future.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pcnavigo.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051109123915/http://www.noordersoft.com/indexen.html |url-status=dead |title=PC-Navigo – Dé routeplanner voor de binnenwateren |trans-title=PC-Navigo – The route planner for inland waterways |archive-date=9 November 2005 |website=PC Navigo}} River navigation is interrupted each year by freezing and severe winter storms.

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From the mouth of the Pripyat River to the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station, there are six sets of dams and hydroelectric stations, which produce 10% of Ukraine's electricity. The Kakhovka dam was destroyed on 6 June 2023 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine,{{cite Q|Q119224855|url-status=live}} with the subsequent drying up of the Kakhovka Reservoir revealing the original course of the river in the area and disconnecting four canal networks known as the Great Meadow.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65963403|title=Ukraine dam: Satellite images reveal Kakhovka canals drying up|date=22 June 2023|website=BBC}}

The first constructed was the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (or DniproHES) near Zaporizhzhia, built between 1927 and 1932 with an output of 558 MW.{{cite book |title=Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka: Politics and people |first1=Edward A. |last1=Hewett |first2=Victor H. |last2=Winston |publisher=Brookings Institution |year=1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DX_sAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Stalin%27s+industrialization%2C+the+famous+Dnieper%22 |page=19 |quote=The importance of Chernobyl' for Soviet industry is best illustrated by comparing it to the key energy project of Stalin's industrialization, the famous Dnieper hydroelectric station, completed in 1932. The largest European hydroelectric station of its time, it had a capacity of 560 MW.|isbn=9780815736240 }} It was destroyed during World War II, but was rebuilt in 1948 with an output of 750 MW.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}

File:Dnieper Nasa 2004-05-06.jpg

File:Dorogobuzh.jpg|The Dnieper River in Dorogobuzh, Russian Empire, before 1917

File:Dnieper River from Kryukivs'kyi bridge in Kremenchuk, Ukraine.jpg|The Dnieper River in Kremenchuk, Ukraine

File:Above Dnieper river video from helicopter - 2004.ogv|The Dnieper river in Ukraine from a helicopter, 2004

Major cities, over 100,000 in population, are in bold script.

Cities and towns located on the Dnieper are listed in order from the river's source (in Russia) to its mouth (in Ukraine):

Arheimar, a capital of the Goths, was located on the Dnieper, according to the Hervarar saga.{{cite web|url=http://www.home.ix.netcom.com/~kyamazak/myth/norse/kershaw/Kershaw1s-hervor-and-heithrek.htm |title=An English translation of Hervar saga by Kershaw |access-date=28 March 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060328125356/http://www.home.ix.netcom.com/~kyamazak/myth/norse/kershaw/Kershaw1s-hervor-and-heithrek.htm |archive-date=28 March 2006 }}

The River Dnieper has been a subject of chapter X of a story by Nikolai Gogol A Terrible Vengeance (1831, published in 1832 as a part of the Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka short stories collection). It is considered as a classical example of description of the nature in Russian literature. The river was also described in the works of Taras Shevchenko.

In the adventure novel The Long Ships (also translated Red Orm), set during the Viking Age, a Scanian chieftain travels to the Dnieper Rapids to retrieve a treasure hidden there by his brother, encountering many difficulties. The novel was very popular in Sweden and is one of few to depict a Viking voyage to eastern Europe.

The River Dnieper has been a subject for artists, great and minor, over the centuries. Major artists with works based on the Dnieper are Arkhip Kuindzhi and Ivan Aivazovsky.

The River Dnieper makes an appearance in the 1964 Hungarian drama film The Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man (based on the novel of the same name by Mór Jókai), where it appears when two characters are leaving Saint Petersburg but get attacked by wolves.

In 1983, the concert program "Song of the Dnieper" from the "Victory Salute" series was released, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Kiev from the German fascist invaders. The program includes songs by Soviet composers, Ukrainian folk songs, and dances performed by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Kiev Military District led by A. Pustovalov, P. Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble, Kyiv Bandurist Capella, the Military Band of the Headquarters of the Kiev Military District led by A. Kuzmenko, singers Anatoliy Mokrenko, Lyudmila Zykina, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Dmytro Hnatyuk, Mykola Hnatyuk. Filming on the battlefield, streets and squares of Kiev. Scriptwriter – Victor Meerovsky. Directed by Victor Cherkasov. Operator – Alexander Platonov.{{YouTube|VE8UQgd756c|Victory Salute. Song of the Dnieper (1983)}}

The 2018 film Volcano was filmed at the river in Beryslav, Kherson Oblast.

In 1941, Mark Fradkin wrote "Song of the Dnieper" to the words of Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.{{YouTube|suX4D_dkX2A|Kyiv Bandurist Capella – Song of the Dnieper}}

File:Plersch-Odjazd Katarzyny II z Kaniowa w 1787 roku.jpg|Catherine II leaving Kaniów in 1787 by Johann Gottlieb Plersch

File:Archip Iwanowitsch Kuindshi 001.jpg|Dnieper by Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1881

File:Arkhip Kuindzhi - Ночь на Днепре - Google Art Project.jpg|Moonlit Night on the Dnieper by Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1882

File:Aivazovsky Ice on Dnipro.jpg|Ice in the Dnieper by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1872

StanislawskiJan.DnieprSzafirowy.1904.ws.jpg|Sapphire Dnieper by Jan Stanisławski, 1904

• The river is one of the symbols of the Ukrainian nation[http://www.ukrlib.com.ua/sochm/printout.php?id=75 Work on the subject Ukrainian national symbols]. Library of Ukrainian literature. and is mentioned in the national anthem of Ukraine.
• There are several historical names that connect the name of the river with Ukraine: Dnieper Ukraine ({{Transliteration|uk|Naddniprianshchyna}}), Right-bank Ukraine, Left-bank Ukraine, and others.
• The cities Dnipro, Dniprorudne, Kamianka-Dniprovska are named after the river.
• The Zaporozhian Cossacks lived on the lower Dnieper and their name refers to their location "beyond the rapids"."...the Zaporohjans whose name meant 'those who live beyond the cataracts'...", Henryk Sienkiewicz, With Fire and Sword, chap. 7.
• The folk metal band Turisas have a song called "The Dnieper Rapids" on their 2007 album The Varangian Way.{{Cite web|url=http://www.turisas.com/site/releases/|title=Releases |work=www.turisas.com}}

• 2022–23 Dnipro River skirmishes
• List of crossings of the Dnieper
• List of rivers of Belarus
• List of rivers of Russia
• List of rivers of Ukraine
• Middle Dnieper culture
• Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks

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• {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Dnieper | volume= 8 |last1= Kropotkin |first1= Peter Alexeivitch |author1-link= Peter Kropotkin| last2= Bealby |first2= John Thomas| page = 349 |short= 1}}
• Volodymyr Kubijovyč, Ivan Teslia, [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pages\D\N\DnieperRiver.htm Dnieper River] at the [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/ Encyclopedia of Ukraine]
• [http://dnieper.org/#googtrans/ru/en Site about Dnieper] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203001301/http://www.dnieper.org/#googtrans/ru/en |date=3 February 2021 }}—objects over the river, photos, facts
• [http://charts.gov.ua/index_en.htm Dnieper river charts]
• [http://kp.ua/daily/031212/369129/ "Комсомольская правда" об угрозах плотины Киевской ГЭС и водохранилища](tr. "Komsomolskaya Pravda" about the threats of the dam of the Kyiv hydroelectric power station and the reservoir")
• [http://www.aif.ua/incidents/965194 "Аргументы и факты" о реальных угрозах дамбы Киевского водохранилища и ГЭС](tr. ""Arguments and Facts" about the real threats of the dam of the Kyiv reservoir and hydroelectric power station")
• [http://izvestia.ru/news/378899 "Известия" о проблематике плотины Киевского водохранилища и ГЭС] (tr. ""Izvestia" about the problems of the dam of the Kyiv reservoir and hydroelectric power station")
• [http://www.unian.net/society/337483-grozit-li-navodnenie-dambe-kievskogo-morya.html Эксперт УНИАН об угрозах дамбы Киевского водохранилища] (tr. "UNIAN expert on the threats of the Kyiv reservoir dam")

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