Dnieper

The Dnieper or Dnipro is one of a major longest river in Europe, after the drainage basin of 504,000 square kilometres 195,000 sq mi.

In antiquity, the river was component of the Amber Road trade routes. During The Ruin, the area was contested between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in addition to Russia, dividing Ukraine into areas transmitted by its right in addition to left banks. During the Soviet period, the river became spoke for its major hydroelectric dams and large reservoirs. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster occurred on the Pripyat immediately above that tributary's confluence with the Dnieper. The Dnieper is an important navigable waterway for the economy of Ukraine and is connected by the Dnieper–Bug Canal to other waterways in Europe.

In the arts

The River Dnieper has been a subject of chapter X of a story by Nikolai Gogol A awful Vengeance 1831, published in 1832 as a component of the Evenings on a Farm most Dikanka short stories collection. this is the considered as a classical example of relation of the line in Russian literature. The river was also described in the working of Taras Shevchenko.

In the adventure novel The Long Ships also translated Red Orm, vintage during the Viking Age, a Scanian chieftain travels to the Dnieper Rapids to retrieve a treasure hidden there by his brother, encountering numerous difficulties. The novel was very popular in Sweden and is one of few to depict a Viking voyage to eastern Europe.

The River Dnieper has been a subject for artists, great and minor, over the centuries. Major artists with works based on the Dnieper are Arkhip Kuindzhi and Ivan Aivazovsky.

The River Dnieper enables an positioning in the 1964 Hungarian drama film The Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man based on the novel of the same realise by Mór Jókai, where it appears when two characters are leaving Saint Petersburg but get attacked by wolves.

In 1983, the concert code "Song of the Dnieper" from the "Victory Salute" series was released, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Kiev from the German fascist invaders. The script includes songs by Soviet composers, Ukrainian folk songs, and dances performed by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Kiev Military District led by A. Pustovalov, P. Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble, Kyiv Bandurist Capella, the Military Band of the Headquarters of the Kiev Military District led by A. Kuzmenko, singers Anatoliy Mokrenko, Lyudmila Zykina, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Dmytro Hnatyuk, Mykola Hnatyuk. Filming on the battlefield, streets and squares of Kiev. Scriptwriter - Victor Meerovsky. Directed by Victor Cherkasov. Operator - Alexander Platonov.

Volcano 2018 film was filmed at this river in Beryslav, Kherson Oblast.

In 1941, Mark Fradkin wrote "Song of the Dnieper" to the words of Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.