Ros (river)

The Ros (Ukrainian: Рось) is a river in Ukraine, a right tributary of the Dnieper. The Ros finds its source in the village of Ordyntsi in Pohrebyshche Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast. It is 346 kilometres (215 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 12,600 square kilometres (4,900 sq mi).^[1] Larger settlements on the river are Bila Tserkva, Bohuslav, and Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi.^[2][3][4]

Ros
The Ros near Sukholisy
Location
Country	Ukraine
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Ordyntsi, Ukraine
Mouth	Dnieper
• location	Kremenchuk Reservoir
• coordinates	49°38′11″N 31°38′10″E / 49.63639°N 31.63611°E / 49.63639; 31.63611
Length	346 km (215 mi)
Basin size	12,600 km^2 (4,900 sq mi)
Basin features
Progression	Dnieper→ Dnieper–Bug estuary→ Black Sea
Tributaries
• left	Rosava

Ros river on a map from the mid-1600s.

Some historians have suggested the possibility that the name of the Kievan Rus', the old East Slavic state, may have originated from the name of the Ros river, part of the anti-Normanist theories of the origin of the Rus'.^{[citation needed]}

Cities and towns on the Ros'

• Pohrebyshche
• Volodarka
• Bila Tserkva
• Rokytne
• Bohuslav
• Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi
• Stebliv

References

1. Рось, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
2. Izsák Tibor (2007). Ukrajna természeti földrajza (pdf) (in Hungarian). II. Rákóczi Ferenc Kárpátaljai Magyar Főiskola. p. 95. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
3. "NÉVJEGYZÉK-SZÓTÁR az UKRAJNA TERMÉSZETI FÖLDRAJZA tantárgyhoz" (pdf) (in Hungarian). II. Rákóczi Ferenc Kárpátaljai Magyar Főiskola. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
4. "Ros River". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2019-05-05.

External links

•   Media related to Ros' River at Wikimedia Commons