Sula River

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Image - The Sula River near Liashchivka.

Sula River. (Map: Sula River.) A left-bank tributary of the Dnipro River that flows for 310 km through Sumy oblast and Poltava oblast and drains a basin area of 18,100 sq km. The river is 10–75 m in width, and its valley is 1.5 to 8 km wide (15 km at its widest point). It originates on the southwestern slope of the Central Upland and empties into the Kremenchuk Reservoir. It freezes over from December to late March. The river is used for water supply, irrigation, and fishing as well as navigation (along its lower course). The cities of Romny and Lubny are situated on it.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]

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1 Central Upland 2 Cherkasy oblast 3 Chernihiv oblast 4 Chernihiv region 5 Dnipro Lowland 6 Dnipro River 7 Flora 8 History of Ukraine 9 Konchak 10 Mhar Transfiguration Monastery 11 Pechenegs 12 Pereiaslav principality 13 Poltava region 14 Rivers 15 Romny 16 Siverianians 17 Sula region 18 Torks 19 Udai River 20 Volodymyr the Great

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