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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Ukraine and Russia
- Also known as: “Desna river” and “Desna River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Muromets island and Bile Lake.
Muromets island
Island
Photo: Аимаина хикари, CC0.
Muromets island is situated 3½ km south of Desna.
Heroiv Dnipra
Railway stop
Photo: AMY 81-412, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Heroiv Dnipra is a station on Kyiv Metro's Obolonsko–Teremkivska line, in Kyiv, Ukraine. The station was opened on 6 November 1982 in the Obolonskyi Raion of Kyiv and was designed by G.D. Heroiv Dnipra is situated 4 km southwest of Desna.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bobrovnya and Obolon.
Bobrovnya
Locality
Photo: Ilya, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bobrovnya is a locality, which is situated 4 km south of Desna.
Obolon
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Obolon is a historical locality which includes a residential area, along with an industrial park within Ukraine's capital Kyiv that is located on its northern side, in an eponymous city district - the Obolonskyi District. Obolon is situated 5 km southwest of Desna.
Vyshhorod
Town
Photo: Moahim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vyshhorod is a city in Kyiv Oblast, central Ukraine, situated immediately north of the capital Kyiv, and part of the Kyiv metropolitan area. It is on the right bank of the Dnieper river and, as the location of the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant, the northern part of the city is beside the Kyiv Reservoir. Vyshhorod is situated 5 km northwest of Desna.
Desna
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Kyiv, Central Ukraine, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Catalan: “riu Desnà”
- Cebuano: “Desna”
- Chinese: “代斯纳河”
- Chinese: “傑斯納河”
- Chinese: “杰斯纳河”
- Chuvash: “Десна”
- Croatian: “Desna”
- Czech: “Desna”
- Czech: “Děsna”
- 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: “デスナー川”
- 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-elva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Desna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Desnaelva”
- Norwegian: “Desna”
- Ossetian: “Десна”
- Panjabi: “ਡੇਸਨਾ ਨਦੀ”
- 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: “Desna”
- Spanish: “Desná”
- Spanish: “Rio Desna”
- Spanish: “Rio Desná”
- Spanish: “Río Desna”
- Spanish: “Río Desná”
- Swedish: “Desna”
- Swedish: “Djesna”
- 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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