Kaniv Hills

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Image - The Kniazha Hora in the Kaniv Hills (view from the Dnieper River).

Image - The Kaniv Hills in the Kaniv State Nature Reserve.

Kaniv Hills (Канівські гори; Kanivski hory). A range of hills, 3–9 km wide, forming the eastern edge of the Dnipro Upland. They extend a distance of 70 km, from Trakhtemyriv to the mouth of the Ros River, and are clearly demarcated from the rest of the Dnipro Upland. The hills are 80–255 m high and descend steeply (down to 160 m) to the Dnipro River. They consist of Triassic, chalk, and Tertiary strata that were dislocated by the Dnipro glacier and are dissected by numerous ravines. Their slopes are covered with forest. The Kaniv Nature Reserve and the Shevchenko National Preserve, where Taras Shevchenko is buried, are located there.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]

List of related links from Encyclopedia of Ukraine pointing to Kaniv Hills entry:

1 Cherkasy oblast

2 Dnipro River

3 Dnipro Upland

4 Kaniv Nature Reserve

5 Riznychenko, Volodymyr

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