Журнал Viche 2015 №17

№17, 2015

Infusive arteries beg for help

Almost one and half hundred rivers with general length over 5000 kilometers run in Poltava region. Big ones (over 500 kilometers) are the Dnipro River and the Psel River, eight middle ones are the Vorskla River, the Sula River, the Kolomak River, the Khorol River, the Udai River, the Oril River, the Hovtva River, the Artopolot River, and also 135 the so-called small rivers. The Vorsklytsia River, the Sukhyi Omelnyk River, the Hrun-Tashan River, the Poluziria River, the Sudzha River, the Sliporid River, the Voinykha River, the Lysohir River, the Ladyzhenka River, the Vepryk River, the Ichenka River... However the specialists warn: presently over 70 small rivers in Poltava region need help, otherwise we are at risk to lose the infusive arteries of the land.

Vitalii SKOBELSKYI