Dnipro River in Kiev is a 2290 km long river (the fourth in Europe after the Volga, the Danube, and Ural) with an average flow at the mouth of 1,670 m³ / s. Its catchment area covers an area of \u200b\u200b516,000 km ² and is the third in Europe as to size, after the Volga and the Danube. The Dnepr
Valdaj born of the plateau (western Russia), then enter in Belarus and 115 km is the natural border between Belarus and Ukraine. Finally crosses Ukraine, which bathes the capital Kiev. In all three countries remains essentially the same name but with different pronunciations.
Approximately the last 800 km of the river are a chain of reservoirs almost one after another. These basins are: the water in Kiev, the basin Kaniv, Kremenčuk basin, the basin Dniprodzeržyns'k of the basin and the basin Zaporižžja Kachov.
The dams forming these basins are used to generate hydroelectric power, which corresponds to about 10% of electricity from Ukraine.
The Dnepr flows into the Black Sea with a long estuary, not far from the city of Odessa, west of the Crimea.
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