Dnieper Rapids Between Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro) and Aleksandrovsk (now Zaporizhzhia)
The Dnieper Rapids (Ukrainian: Дніпрові пороги, romanized: Dniprovi porohy) also known as Cataracts of the Dnieper were the historical rapids on the Dnieper river in Ukraine, composed of outcrops of granites, gneisses and other types of bedrock of the Ukrainian Shield. The rapids began below the present-day city of Dnipro (formerly Kodak Fortress, Yekaterinoslav), where the river turns to the south, and dropped 50 meters in 66 kilometers, ending before the present-day city of Zaporizhzhia (whose name literally means "beyond the rapids").
There were nine major rapids (some sources give a smaller number), about 30–40 smaller rapids and 60 islands and islets. The rapids almost totally obstructed the navigation of the river.
After the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station was built at Zaporizhzhia in 1932, the rapids were inundated by the Dnieper Reservoir.
The DnieperRapids (Ukrainian: Дніпрові пороги, romanized: Dniprovi porohy) also known as Cataracts of the Dnieper were the historical rapids on the Dnieper...
The Dnieper (/(də)ˈniːpər/), also called Dnipro (/dəˈniːproʊ/) or Dniapro, is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills...
almost 100-kilometre (62 mi)-long stretch that was filled with the DnieperRapids. This is approximately the distance between the modern cities Dnipro...
reloaded onto other waiting ships on the Dnieper. Along the Dnieper, the route crossed several major rapids and passed through Kiev. After entering the...
river past the ninth rapid (see DnieperRapids). In the 1930s, when the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station was built, these rapids were flooded. Only granite cliffs...
dam of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, built in Zaporizhzhia from 1927 to 1932. The filling of the reservoir inundated the DnieperRapids. The Samara...
romanized: Zaporozhtsi) were Cossacks who lived beyond (that is, downstream from) the DnieperRapids. Along with Registered Cossacks and Sloboda Cossacks, Zaporozhian Cossacks...
Zaporizhzhia refers to the position of the city: "beyond the rapids"—downstream or south of the DnieperRapids. These were previously an impediment to navigation...
The Dnieper Flotilla (Russian: Днепровская военная флотилия, Ukrainian: Дніпровська військова флотилія) is the name given to the various naval flotillas...
the fact that they were outnumbered. The Norse named some of the rapids on the Dnieper, but this can hardly be seen from modern names. The Norse of the...
people in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Below the DnieperRapids were the Zaporozhian Cossacks, freebooters organized into small, loosely-knit...
territory 'beyond the rapids' (za porohamy) of the Dnieper River. The DnieperRapids were a major portage on the north–south Dnieper trade route. The term...
In 1635, the Polish government built the Kodak fortress above the DnieperRapids at Kodaky, partly as a result of rivalry in the region between Poland...
The Zaporozhian Cossacks lived on the Pontic–Caspian steppe below the DnieperRapids (Ukrainian: za porohamy), also known as the Wild Fields. The group became...
made at the Leningrad factory Electrosila. After commissioning the Dnieperrapids were flooded, and the river became navigable from Kyiv to Kherson. In...
"In the Court of Jarisleif" – 3:17 "Five Hundred and One" – 6:18 "The DnieperRapids" – 5:20 "Miklagard Overture" – 8:18 "Rasputin" (Boney M. cover) (Director's...
Slavic chronicle, Sveneld attempted to warn Sviatoslav to avoid the Dnieperrapids, but the prince slighted his wise advice and was ambushed and slain...
of the Pruth the fortress was destroyed by the Russians. One of the DnieperRapids was called after the fortress. It was constructed by Stanisław Koniecpolski...
(with one particularly important site being the Surskoy Island in the DnieperRapids where pottery was made from 6200 BC to 5800 BC). Elshanka pots, dated...
The Zaporozhian Cossacks lived on the Pontic–Caspian steppe below the DnieperRapids (Ukrainian: za porohamy), also known as the Wild Fields. They have played...
the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth built the Kodak Fortress above the DnieperRapids at Kodaky on the south-eastern outskirts of modern Dnipro near the current...
service of the Byzantines) and killed during his attempt to cross the Dnieperrapids (modern Ukraine). His skull is made into a drinking cup. Sviatoslav...
centuries were the only settlements from Kaniv and Cherkasy to the DnieperRapids.[relevant?] In the 30s of the XVIII century, the Kholodnyi Yar Sich...
"demarcation islet", Vytachiv Etymology of the Hebrides Names of the major Dnieperrapids Place names in Ireland of Norse origin Trade route from the Varangians...
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