Irpin River

For the city with the same name, see Irpin.

Irpin’
Other name(s)	Ірпінь
Basin
Main source	Ukraine
Source elevation
River mouth	Kiev Reservoir of the Dnieper
Size	3.340^[1]
Country	Ukraine
Physiognomy
Length	162 km (101 mi)^[1]

The Irpin’ or Irpen’ (Ukrainian: Ірпі́нь; Russian: Ирпе́нь) is a river in Ukraine, a right tributary of the Dnieper.

It is 162 km in length and flows through the city of Irpin'. The location where Irpin' enters the Dnieper river falls into the Kiev Reservoir which the Dnieper forms because of the Kiev Hydro-Electric Power Plant dam. Thus, the Dnieper water level at this location is lifted artificially by about 6.5–7 meters above the natural level. Therefore, the water of Irpin' is pumped into the Kiev Reservoir by powerful electrical pumps, making Irpin' the river that literally flows upwards.

The lands around Irpen' were the heartland of Kievan Rus and the chronicles mention the river in connection with several important historic events, such as the Battle on the Irpen' River of 1321 in which the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas (Gedemin) gained control over the lands of what is now central Ukraine.

References

1 2 Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Irpin, (Russian), hentet 15. august 2015.

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Dnieper River

Tributaries¹	Drut Berezina Sozh Pripyat Horyn Sluch Ubort Teteriv Irpin Desna Stuhna Trubizh Ros Tiasmyn Supiy Sula Pslo Vorskla Samara Konka Bilozerka Bazavluk Inhulets Zolotonoshka River

Reservoirs	Chernobyl Reservoir Dnieper Dniprodzerzhynsk Kakhovka Kaniv Kiev Kremenchuk

Hydroelectric stations	Dnieper Dniprodzerzhynsk Kakhovka Kaniv Kiev HPP Kiev PSP Kremenchuk

Canals	North Crimean Dnieper - Donbas Main Kakhovka Magistrale Dnieper - Kryvyi Rih Dnieper - Inhulets

Cities	Dorogobuzh Smolensk Mahilyow Kiev Cherkasy Dnipropetrovsk

¹ Italics indicate left tributaries

Coordinates: 50°27′41.18″N 30°31′47.6″E / 50.4614389°N 30.529889°E / 50.4614389; 30.529889

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