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Dnipro – Donbas Canal
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Throughout the 20th century, <a href="/facts/Industrialization_in_the_Soviet_Union/YUdIaTEg">Soviet industrialization</a> depleted the freshwater supplies in eastern Ukraine.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> With the construction of <a href="/facts/Siverskyi_Donets_%25E2%2580%2593_Donbas_Canal/kzqb9BWH">Siverskyi Donets – Donbas Canal</a> in the 1950s, the main source in <a href="/facts/Siverskyi_Donets/0SGzr7TI">Siverskyi Donets</a> became further depleted. </p><p>Construction of a new canal between the <a href="/facts/Dnipro/tbWRkq3g">Dnipro</a> and the <a href="/facts/Donbas/R0SRLmoj">Donbas</a> region began in 1969, and was originally planned on two stages: the first from the <a href="/facts/Dnipro_river/RLJ1G8pH">Dnipro river</a> to near <a href="/facts/Izium/zmHFtNyz">Izium</a>, and the second towards the city of <a href="/facts/Donetsk/4pdbEWpB">Donetsk</a>. The first section opened in 1981, but construction of the second section (which would have added a further 171 kilometres (106 mi), taking the canal onwards from the Krasnopavlivka Reservoir to the Karlivka Reservoir near the city of <a href="/facts/Donetsk/4pdbEWpB">Donetsk</a>) was suspended, and that section never opened.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="characteristics">Characteristics</h2> <p>The canal begins from the <a href="/facts/Dnipro_river/RLJ1G8pH">Dnipro river</a> in <a href="/facts/Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast/HEw6EvUG">Dnipropetrovsk Oblast</a>, and at the moment ends at the <a href="/facts/Siverskyi_Donets/0SGzr7TI">Siverskyi Donets</a> in <a href="/facts/Kharkiv_Oblast/2grgUKfU">Kharkiv Oblast</a>, for a total length of 263 kilometres (163 mi).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/North_Crimean_Canal/vFMRFQnL">North Crimean Canal</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Siverskyi_Donets_%25E2%2580%2593_Donbas_Canal/kzqb9BWH">Siverskyi Donets – Donbas Canal</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Technical Report: Description of the Characteristics of Dnipro River basin. Summary" (PDF). European Union. January 2020. p. 14. <a href="https://www.euwipluseast.eu/images/2020/01/PDF/EUWI_UA_Dnipro_Characteristic_Summary_EN_2020.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.euwipluseast.eu/images/2020/01/PDF/EUWI_UA_Dnipro_Characteristic_Summary_EN_2020.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Dnipro-Donbas Canal". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 1984. <a href="https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CD%5CN%5CDnipro6DonbasCanal.htm" target="_blank">https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CD%5CN%5CDnipro6DonbasCanal.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Dnipro-Donbas Canal". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 1984. <a href="https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CD%5CN%5CDnipro6DonbasCanal.htm" target="_blank">https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CD%5CN%5CDnipro6DonbasCanal.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Dnipro-Donbas Canal". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 1984. <a href="https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CD%5CN%5CDnipro6DonbasCanal.htm" target="_blank">https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CD%5CN%5CDnipro6DonbasCanal.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>