Desna River
Desna (Russian: Десна; Ukrainian: Десна) is a river in Russia and Ukraine, left tributary of the Dnieper river. The word means "right hand" in the Old East Slavic language. Its length is 1,130 km (702 mi), and its drainage basin covers 88,900 km2 (34,324 sq mi).
In Ukraine, the river's width ranges from 60 to 250 metres, with its average depth being 3 m (10 ft). The mean annual discharge at its mouth is 360 m³/s (12,713 ft³/s). The river freezes over from early December to early April, and is navigable from Novhorod-Siverskyi to its mouth, which totals about 535 km (332 mi).
Geography
Course
The Desna River originates in the Smolensk Heights of Smolensk Oblast, Russia. The river's source lies eastsoutheast from the city of Smolensk and not far from Yelnya in a forest near the village of Naleti. The Desna then flows south through a low and swampy valley toward the city of Bryansk, where the river's right bank rises.
After its confluence with the Seim River near the Russian-Ukrainian border, the river then widens, splitting into numerous smaller branches. Its right bank declines again near the city of Chernihiv, and again near one of its tributaries, the Oster, where the Desna continues its course through a low, muddy plain until it finally reaches its mouth near Kiev at the Dnieper River.
Desna River (Guslitsa basin)
The Desna River (Russian: Десна), is a river in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Guslitsa River (Nerskaya's tributary). It is 25 km in length. The Desna River freezes up in November–December and stays under the ice until April.
Source of the river is in the Voskresensky District near the meeting point of the borders of three districts of the Moscow Oblast Voskresensky, Yegoryevsky and Orekhovo-Zuyevsky. Flows all over North, Desna running into Guslitsa about the village of Tsaplyno.
The Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District's villages: Mosyagino, Chichevo, Baryshevo, Kostenevo, Bezzubovo, Yuryatino are situated on the Desna.
In the higher and middle parts of the stream is almost entirely lost its forest cover: upstream — because of the extraction of phosphorites, in the middle part — because of the plowing.
Sources
Desná (Kamenice)
Desná (Czech pronunciation: [ˈdɛsnaː]; German: Desse) is a short river in the Czech Republic. It is 2.3 km long and is a left tributary of the Kamenice River, to which it enters in Tanvald.
It originates in the Jizera Mountains and has two tributaries, Bílá Desná and Černá Desná.
Coordinates: 50°45′14″N 15°18′45″E / 50.7538°N 15.3126°E / 50.7538; 15.3126
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