Southern Bug
Southern Bug is a mapped river in the YearMaps hydrographic index, part of the Pivd. Buh system. River courses organise settlement, agriculture and frontier-making more durably than any political boundary, and this reach is indexed against the dams, lakes and cities within its catchment.
- Feature Class
- River
- System
- Pivd. Buh
- Coordinates
- 48.59°, 29.29°
About Southern Bug
The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh (Ukrainian: Південний Буг, romanized: Pivdennyi Buh; Russian: Южный Буг, romanized: Yuzhny Bug; Crimean Tatar: Aq Suv; Romanian: Bugul de Sud or just Bug), and sometimes Boh River (Ukrainian: Бог; Polish: Boh), is a navigable river located in Ukraine. It is the longest river flowing exclusively in Ukraine, second only to the Ukrainian part of the Dnieper.
While located in relatively close proximity, the river should not be confused with the Western Bug or Bug, which flows in the opposite direction towards the 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 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.
Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Southern Bug (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Southern Bug in Depth
History
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, 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.
Sections adapted from Wikipedia: Southern Bug (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Southern Bug: Key Facts
| Length | 806 km |
|---|---|
| Average discharge | 160 m³/s |
| Drainage basin | 63,700 km² |
| Source | Podolian Upland |
| Mouth | Black Sea |
| Tributaries | Synyukha, Inhul River, Chychyklia, Ploska River, Vovk, Zhar, Riv, Savran River |
Facts from Wikidata Q188940 (CC0).
Major River Dossiers
Hand-written studies of the great river systems of history.
Connected Reaches
Nearby watercourses in the same drainage network.
Water Bodies in the Catchment
Settlements Along the Reach
Hydraulic Infrastructure Nearby
Surrounding Terrain
Southern Bug: Quick Answers
- Where is Southern Bug?
- Southern Bug is located in Ukraine, at 48.5886° N, 29.2949° E.
- Are there dams on the Southern Bug?
- No dam on the Southern Bug is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.
- Which river system is the Southern Bug part of?
- The Southern Bug is part of the Pivd. Buh system.