Desna
The Desna is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper. Its name in Old East Slavic: деснъ means lit. "right hand". It has a length of 1,130 km, and its drainage basin covers 88,900 km2.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Ukraine and Russia
- Also known as: “Desná”, “Děsna”, “Desna river”, “Desna River”, “Desna-elva”, “Desnaelva”, “Deszna”, “Djesna”, “Rio Desná”, “Río Desna”, “riu Desnà”, “ਡੇਸਨਾ ਨਦੀ”, “デスナー川”, and “代斯纳河”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bile Lake and Heroiv Dnipra.
Heroiv Dnipra
Railway stop
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bobrovnya and Obolon.
Obolon
Suburb
Vyshhorod
Town
Desna
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Kyiv, Central Ukraine, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.55° or 50° 33′ north
Longitude
30.53333° or 30° 32′ east
Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)
Open location code
9G2GHG2M+28
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Desna” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Desna”
- Amharic: “ደስና ወንዝ”
- Arabic: “ديسنا”
- Armenian: “Դեսնա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Desna”
- Azerbaijani: “Desna çayı”
- Bashkir: “Десна (Днепр ҡушылдығы)”
- Bashkir: “Десна”
- Basque: “Desna”
- Belarusian: “Дзясна”
- Bosnian: “Desna (pritoka Dnjepra)”
- Bosnian: “Desna”
- Bulgarian: “Десна”
- Catalan: “Desnà”
- Cebuano: “Desna”
- Chinese: “傑斯納河”
- Chinese: “杰斯纳河”
- Chuvash: “Десна”
- Croatian: “Desna”
- Czech: “Desna”
- Danish: “Desna”
- Dutch: “Desna”
- Eastern Mari: “Десна (Днепрын эҥерйолжо)”
- Eastern Mari: “Десна”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ديسنا”
- Erzya: “Десна”
- Esperanto: “Desno”
- Estonian: “Desna”
- Finnish: “Desna”
- French: “Desna”
- Georgian: “დესნა”
- German: “Desna”
- Greek: “Ντεσνά”
- Hebrew: “דסנה”
- Hungarian: “Gyeszna”
- Indonesian: “Desna”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Desna”
- Irish: “Abhainn Desna”
- Italian: “Desna”
- Japanese: “デスナ川”
- Kirghiz: “Десна”
- Korean: “데스나강”
- Kotava: “Desna (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Desna”
- Ladin: “Desna”
- Latin: “Desna”
- Latvian: “Desna”
- Lithuanian: “Desna”
- Macedonian: “Десна”
- Malagasy: “Desna”
- Mingrelian: “დესნა (დნეპრიშ ნადუ)”
- Mingrelian: “დესნა”
- Mongolian: “Десна гол”
- Mongolian: “Десна”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Desna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Desna”
- Norwegian: “Desna”
- Ossetian: “Десна”
- Panjabi: “ਡੇਸਨਾ”
- Persian: “رود دسنا”
- Polish: “Desna”
- Portuguese: “Rio Desna”
- Romanian: “Desna”
- Romanian: “Râul Desna”
- Russian: “Десна”
- Russian: “Десна́”
- Serbian: “Desna”
- Serbian: “Десна”
- Slovak: “Desna”
- Slovenian: “Desna”
- South Azerbaijani: “دسنا چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Desná”
- Swedish: “Desna”
- Turkish: “Desna Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Десна”
- Uzbek: “Desna”
- Venetian: “Fiume Desná”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Desna”
- Welsh: “Afon Desna”
- Wu Chinese: “杰斯纳河”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Oseshchyna and Troieshchyna.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant and Desnianskyi Park.
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