Ukraine - The Land and its People. An Introduction to its Geography

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Stepan Rudnyzkyj. Ukraine - The Land and its People. An Introduction to its Geography

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Publisher's Preface

Book I. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. Ukraine as a Geographic Unit

General Survey of the Physical Geography of Ukraine

Streams and Rivers of the Ukraine

The Ukrainian Climate

Flora and Fauna of Ukraine

BOOK II. ANTHROPOGEOGRAPHY. Ethnographic Boundaries of Ukraine

The Ukrainian Nation as an Anthropogeographic Unit

Relations Between the Soil and the People of Ukraine

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Ukraine

The Land and its People

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All tributaries on the left side of the Dniester, beginning at the Zolota Lipa, flow into yari-canons of this sort. The most beautiful and magnificent is the canon of the Dniester, whose walls often exceed a height of 200 m. It cuts thru the high plateau in adventurous windings, every curve revealing new, beautiful prospects over the high, concave, steep edge, torn by ravines, and the gently rising convex banks. In deep gorges the yari of the tributaries open into the yar of the main stream. Between the defiles stretches the flat, hardly undulating plain. In the summer only endless waving grain-steppes present themselves to the view of the traveler, only here and there a little wood appears on the horizon, or a lone farm. Suddenly the wood seems to end, the traveler is confronted by a deep, steppe-walled valley, down the sides of which climbs the road. And below, on the silvery river, amid the green of the orchards, lies village after village.

The further to the east, the more frequent do the yari become, and the balkas (gorges) similar to them but smaller; yet these are not so deep and picturesque. In the regions of Tiraspol Ananiv the entire plateau surface is very profusely cut by these defiles. In the district of Ananiv the balkas take up one-seventh of the entire surface. The plateau is cut up by these water crevasses into innumerable narrow fens.

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