Khorol (river)


Khorol is a river in Ukraine, a right tributary of the Psel in the basin of Dnieper. It is long, and has a drainage basin of. The Khorol river has its source near the village of Chervona Sloboda in Nedryhailiv Raion, Sumy Oblast.

General data

The length of 308 km. The area of the catchment area is 3 870 km². The slope of the river is 0.3 m / km. Trapezoidal valley, often asymmetric, with raised right and sloping left slopes; width 10–12 km Floodplain width from 0,2-0,5 km to 1,5–2 km, marshy, shrubby and meadow vegetation. The river channel is wavy with width 10–60 m and more. Power supply is rainy and snowy. The average long-term water consumption of Khorol is 3.8 m³ / s. The mineralization of water changes during the year: spring flood - 843 mg / dm³; summer-autumn measurements - 966 mg / dm³; winter gauge - 1053 mg / dm³. The river freezes at the end of November - in early December and crashes in March.

Main tributaries

Right: Sakunykha, Rubanka, Vilshana, Tataryna, Oznytsia, Lykhobabivka, Kharpachka, Khomutets, Gremiacha, Kuturzhykha, Avramivka, Lahodynka, Holubykha, Yenkivka, Kryva Ruda, Saha, Tataryna, Shcherbanka.
Left: Berezivka, Staraya Saha, Rudka, Buda, Kholodna.

Populated points

Towns along the river are Lypova Dolyna, Khorol, and the resort town Myrhorod.

Use

It is used for water supply, irrigation, and fishing. Several gateway regulators have been constructed on the river, there are reservoirs.

Khorol in history and culture

A settlement of the Bronze Age was found in the river valley, as well as early Slavic settlements and the burial ground of Chernyakhiv culture. In 1185, a battle between the Rusyns and Polovtsian troops took place on the banks of the river. Landscapes of Khorol have long attracted artists. Here's how the river was written by the famous Ukrainian poet of the twentieth century. Paul Tychyna:
"Smoke, smoke from cars,
Like maiden summer.
Not that now Mirgorod
Khorol River is not that...

Geography

Khorol starts from the sources to the north of the village Chervona Sloboda. Flows Prydniprovska lowland on the territory of Nedryhailiv, Lypova Dolyna raions of the Sumy oblast, Hadiach, Myrhorod, Khorol, Semenivka and Hlobyne raions of the Poltava oblast. Khorol flows mainly to the south, between the cities of Myrhorod and Khorol — to the southwest, then to the south-east. Khorol flows into Psel on the northern outskirts of the village of Popivka, Hlobyne raion, Poltava oblast.