On the River Dnyeper

On the way to the Black Sea, the ship passes five large dams that act as a stairway up or down the river. The first dam that ships reach from Kiev is the Kaniv Dam, located near the city of the same name, the burial place of the national poet Taras Shevchenko.

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Below, ships usually stop at Cherkassy. The second dam is in Kremenchuk. Below this second dam, the boat reaches Dnepropetrovsk, it is the largest city on the river after Kiev. Built on the ancient rapids at the top of the ruins, it is as old as the time of the Goths. Dnipropetrovsk, famous for its aeronautical constructions, has many green spaces, huge parks, especially along the Dnieper River that runs through the city from north to south. The next stop is the city of Zaporizhia.

In the 16th century the Zaporizh Cossacks established a historic military camp, the Zaporizhyskaya Setch. They were defeated in the eighteenth century by the army of Catherine the Great. Below the Kakhovka Dam, the lowest on the river, the ship pulls in the port of Kherson. Kherson was named in honor of the ancient Greek city of Chersonese, located in Crimea. The city has a large number of monuments and military relics. Near the city there is a unique reserve with wild animals - Askania-Nova.

After the cruise ship has passed the shipyards on its way to the mouth of the Dnieper River, it enters the Dnieper Liman, the estuary of the Great River.

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At the mouth of Liman, on the right bank, is the ancient city of Ochakov. In the time of Peter the Great, it was the Turkish side of the border, and this was the place where King Charles of Sweden fled after losing almost all his army in the battle of Poltava. Today, the city is the seaside resort of the Mykolaivska oblast and an important fishing port.

When the ship enters the Black Sea, it goes to Odessa. Odessa was founded in ex nihilo by the Russian empress Catherine II. From to , Odessa was a free port. The Porto Franco district in the city center still captures some of the essence of Odessa in its golden age under the Tsars, with all kinds of modern shops available for tourists. The city is a top tourist destination, with many cafes and nightclubs, miles of sandy beaches and a certain southern atmosphere. Any resident of the country will tell you that the spirit of Ukraine lives on the Dnieper.

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To experience, take a cruise from Kiev along the Dnieper to the Black Sea. You will come back from the cruise not only with new friends, but also with new experiences and new impressions. I have read the Policy of personal data protection of "Olta travel" LLC, accept the conditions and give my consent to the processing of my personal data, namely: Ltd hereinafter — Olta Travel receives from the visitors of website http: The dams are supposed to be strong enough to survive natural and terrorist threats.

Both their construction schemes and government efforts work towards this goal.

For instance, some engineers guarantee that every Dnieper dam will survive an earthquake to its typical regional extent , meteorite or aircraft falling. Authorities pay significant attention to safeguarding the dams and bridges by special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other security agencies.

A failure of the Kiev Reservoir would cause a flooding of the low-lying areas of Kiev , mainly densely populated residential neighborhoods. In —03 the Security Service of Ukraine organized exercises on the Kiev Hydroelectric station, simulating a possible terrorist attack. The results of the exercises were considered satisfactory.

New concerns arose in after a fake terrorist threat case. A police officer , dissatisfied with his commanders, anonymously called an emergency line stating that he had planted a bomb in a cargo train crossing the Kiev Reservoir's dam. An immediate check proved the threat to be fake and the alerter was arrested.

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But the incident caused another wave of public concern. In , the former Kiev Hydroelectric Power Plant manager and veteran stated that its dam is guaranteed capable to withstand any physical threat except large space object impact or deliberate military attack of significant scale. However, an emergency plan exists to safely minimize consequences of a space impact if there would be an early warning on it.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I think that no one would then be around to be saved from flooding. Yes, the accidents are possible at peace time if the metallic structures of the dam are not replaced on time. But this is taken care of for the Kiev dam.

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Besides, in the Netherlands, one third of the country spans across the territories gained from the sea. People build the reservoirs there for years and no one is afraid of this proximity. Most important is to build the dam competently, provide it with modern equipment and follow on its operation [