Main+river+basins+and+their+characteristics

 **MAIN RIVER BA SINS.** The overwhelming majority of rivers in Ukraine (94 %) belong to the Black sea and the Azov sea basins. Only the rivers of the western part of the country are related to the Baltic sea basin. Some small rivers in the south of the country have no streamflow into the World Ocean. Such distribution of river run-off is caused by the general structure of the surface of Ukraine.

**THE RIVERS OF THE BLACK SEA BASIN. ** At all times all over the world rivers played the important role in life and activity of human beings. In some places they have so strongly become usual and inherent to economic activities and culture of people that they became their national symbols.

Thus it is impossible to imagine Ukraine without the Dnieper-Slavutych. For us it is not only the powerful waterway, picturesque beauty, but also the reflection of the soul of our nation, its history. On the banks of the Dnieper the kernel of the Ukrainian state – golden-domed Kyyiv was formed, the first Ukrainian democracy - the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks was born, from its steep slopes the national genius Taras Shevchenko admires the native spaces.

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