The Dnieper River (Belarusian: Дняпро/Dnyapro; Russian: Днепр/Dnepr; Ukrainian: Днiпро/Dnipro; Polish: Dniepr; Latin: Borysthenes, Danaper) is a river (2290 km length) which flows from Russia through Belarus and then Ukraine. In all three countries it has essentially the same name, albeit pronounced differently, so it can be also called Dniepr, Dnepr, Dniapro or Dnipro.
A ship on the Dnieper
The Dnieper finds its source in Valday hills (north Russia) and runs south eventually flowing into the Black Sea. 115 km of its length serves as a natural border between Belarus and Ukraine. Approximately the last 800 km of the river is a chain of almost consecutive reservoirs.
These reservoirs are: Kyivs'ke (922 km), Kanivs'ke (582 km), Kremenchuts'ke (2,252 km), Dniprodzerzhins'ke (567 km), Zaporiz'ke (410 km), and Kakhovs'ke (2,155 km). The dams forming these are used to generate hydroelectric power, providing around 10% of Ukraine's electricity.
Dniepr River Basin - UNEP/DEWA~Europe > Publication > Freshwater in Europe
Danube - Dniepr - Don - Douro - Ebro - Elbe - Garonne - Guadalquivir - Guadiana - Loire - Oder - Po - Rhine - Rhone - Seine - Tagus - Vistula - Volga
Rising in the southwestern part of the Russian Federation, at an altitude of about 220 metres on the southern slope of the Valdai Hills, west of Moscow, not far from the sources of the Volga, the Dnieper River flows generally south through Belarus, then southeast through Ukraine, ending in the Black Sea.
The command system "DNIEPR" - two-address, form of representation of numbers - with a comma fixed before high bit, the length of a word (including a sign bit) - 26 bits, the system of elements - impulse - potential.
"DNIEPR" is als applied also in systems of data processing of physical experiment, as the machine has the devices making easir connection with measuring instruments and the circuits of control of experiment.
In the pracess of improvement in "DNIEPR" the system of interruption for 28 reasons is included, the number of blocks of input from a paper punched tape and output of the information (high-speed digital printing station) is added.
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