Inhulets

{{About||a smaller river in Mykolaiv Oblast|Inhul|the Ukrainian Premier League football team|FC Inhulets Petrove}}

{{More citations needed|date=June 2019}}

{{Infobox river

| name = Inhulets

| name_other = Інгулець

| image = Mündung der Saksahan in die Inhulez in Krywyj Rih 3.JPG

| image_caption = The boat station (built in 1957) at the historical confluence with the Saksahan river in Kryvyi Rih

| map = Inhoulets.png

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| mapframe-zoom = 6

| source1_location = Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine

| mouth_location = Dnieper

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|46.6842|N|32.8125|E|source:wikidata|display=it}}

| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = Ukraine

| length = {{convert|557|km|abbr=on}}Zelenska, L., Demianov, V. [http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=13332 Inhulets (ІНГУЛЕ́ЦЬ)]. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. 2011

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| basin_size = {{convert|14,460|km2|abbr=on}}

| progression = {{RDnieper}}

| name_etymology = Turkic iyen-kul, "wide lake"{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1wFFtlWvrMC&dq=ingulets+wide+lake&pg=PA27|title=Preserving the Dnipro River: Harmony, History and Rehabilitation|first=V. Y.|last=Schevchuk|date=July 29, 2005|publisher=IDRC|isbn=9781552501382 |via=Google Books}}

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The Inhulets ({{Langx|uk|Інгулець}}) or Ingulets ({{langx|ru|Ингуле́ц}}) is a river, a right tributary of the Dnieper, that flows through Ukraine. It has a length of {{convert|557|km}} and a drainage basin of {{convert|14,460|km2}}.

The Inhulets has its source in the Dnieper Upland in a ravine (balka) to the west of Topylo village, in the Kropyvnytskyi Raion of Kirovohrad Oblast, about {{convert|30|km}} from the Dnieper river, to which it initially flows parallel. The Inhulets turns south, where it flows through Kryvbas Iron Ore Basin, and the Kherson and Mykolaiv Oblasts, before finally flowing into the Dnieper about {{convert|30|km}} east of the city of Kherson. The river flows through southern spurs of the Dnieper Uplands and then across the Black Sea Lowland. The upper portion of the Inhulets basin is in the forest steppe zone, the lower part within the Pontic steppe.

The river is dammed at the village of Iskrivka in Kirovohrad Oblast and about {{convert|30|km}} further downstream at the city of Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to form reservoirs. The lower one, the {{ill|Karachunivske Reservoir|uk|Карачунівське водосховище}}, provides the water supply for Kryvyi Rih and for irrigation. On 14 September 2022 the Ukrainian government said a Russian missile attack had broken the dam, causing flooding.{{Cite web |author=Sana Noor Haq and Oleksandra Ochman |title=Russia hits dam in central Ukraine, in latest attack on civilian infrastructure |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/europe/russia-ukraine-kryvyi-rih-dam-strike-intl/index.html |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=CNN|date=15 September 2022 }}

The course of the river near Kryvyi Rih has created many small islands, which have a rich vegetation. However, by 2017 the vegetation was impaired by the high level of contamination of the river, due to the nearby iron ore mining industry.{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340831622_Rivers_revitalisation_approaches_to_decision |title=Rivers revitalisation: approaches to decision |first=Tetiana |last=Alokhina |via=www.researchgate.net |page=4 |year=2020 |quote=The main goal of the second stage of works the riverbed purification in the Inhulets River (in 2017) was the removal of a large amount of contaminated sediment. Contaminated sediment was formed as a result of activity the ore-dressing factories and the metallurgical plant, which are located higher on the river flow |access-date=2022-10-04}}

Urban localities located on the river include Oleksandriia, Kryvyi Rih, Shyroke, Inhulets (former city merged with Kryvyi Rih), and Snihurivka.

The M14 highway crosses the river over the Daryivka Bridge, connecting the cities of Kherson and Beryslav.{{cite news |title=The Ukrainian Armed Forces again hit the Daryivka bridge connecting Kherson and Nova Kakhovka |url=https://babel.ua/en/news/83518-the-ukrainian-armed-forces-again-hit-the-daryivka-bridge-connecting-kherson-and-nova-kakhovka |publisher=Babel.ua |date=26 August 2022}}

FC Inhulets Petrove is a professional football team in Ukraine that is named after the river.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

During Kherson counteroffensive of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine between 1 September and 11 October, Ukraine regained the northern third of the rectangle between the Inhulets and Dnieper and continued to push slowly south toward Kherson and the dam at Nova Kakhovka.Wall Street Journal, 13oct22, page A10, map