Zbruch River

Zbruch River

Infobox River
river_name = Zbruch, Збруч


caption =
origin = Ukraine
mouth = Dniester
basin_countries = Ukraine
length = 247 km
elevation =
discharge =
watershed = 3,300 km²

Zbruch River ( _uk. Збруч), also spelled "Zbrucz River," is a river in Western Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dniester. It flows within the Podolia Upland. Zbruch is the namesake of the Zbruch idol, a sculpture of a Slavic deity (9th century) in the form of a column with a head with four faces, found in 1848 by the river.

Between 1772 and 1807, and between 1815 and 1918 the river was a border between the Austrian Galicia on one side and Imperial Russia on the other. Following the Polish-Ukrainian Alliance of 1920 it was intended as the border between Poland and Ukraine. After the Treaty of Riga the Polish-Soviet border was established in the area, running along the river.

It is 247 km in length and its drainage basin is 3,330 km².


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