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Oskil
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The Oskil or Oskol (; ) is a south-flowing river in Russia and Ukraine. It arises roughly between Kursk and Voronezh and flows south to join the Siverskyi Donets which flows southeast to join the Don. It is long, with a drainage basin of .
Key facts
- River.name
- Oskil
- River.image
- Oskil near Kruhliakivka.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Oskil near Kruhliakivka
- River.map
- Seversky Donets oskil.png
- River.map_caption
- Donets river basin. The Oskil (red) is the northernmost large tributary
- River.mapframe
- yes
- River.mapframe zoom
- 5
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia, Ukraine
- River.mouth
- Donets
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Kharkiv Oblast
- Image
- Oskol river.JPG
- Length
- 472
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- Commons category
- Oskol River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Donets
- watershed area
- 14800
- discharge
- 44.2
- origin of the watercourse
- Timsky District
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- OpenStreetMap zoom level
- 7
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- References
- External links
The Oskil or Oskol (; ) is a south-flowing river in Russia and Ukraine. It arises roughly between Kursk and Voronezh and flows south to join the Siverskyi Donets which flows southeast to join the Don. It is long, with a drainage basin of .
The river has its sources on the Central Russian Upland, and flows through Kursk and Belgorod Oblasts in Russia, and through the eastern part of Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine, where it joins the Seversky Donets river. An artificial lake, the Oskil Reservoir, was created in 1958 to help with flood protection and as a source of electricity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oskil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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