Don River, Russia
Don River watershed
Origin	Russia
Mouth	Sea of Azov
Basin countries	Russia, Ukraine
Length	1,950 km (1,212 mi)
Avg. discharge	935 m³/s
Basin area	425,600 km² (164,324 mi²)

The Don (Дон) is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 km southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,950 km (1,220 miles) to the Sea of Azov. Image File history File links Donrivermap. ... [[ == Headline text == This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The shallow Sea of Azov is clearly distinguished from the deeper Black Sea. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... In hydrology, the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. ... Tula (Russian: ) is an industrial city in the European part of Russia, located 165 km to the south of Moscow, on the river Upa, at . ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2007)    - Density 10,469,000   9684. ... The shallow Sea of Azov is clearly distinguished from the deeper Black Sea. ...

From its source, the river first flows southeast to Voronezh, then southwest to its mouth. The main city on the river is Rostov on Don, its main tributary, the Donets. Voronezh (Russian: ) is a large city in southwestern Russia, not far from Ukraine. ... Central market near Nativity Cathedral. ... Donets (Донец), is a tributary of Don River, Russia. ...

History

In antiquity, the river was viewed as the border between Europe and Asia.^[1] In the Hebrew Book of Jubilees, it is mentioned as being part of the border, beginning with its westernmost point up to its mouth, between the allotment of Japheth to the north and that of Shem to the south, sons of Noah. During the times of the old Scythians it was known in Greek as the Tanaïs, and has been a major trading route ever since. The Book of Jubilees expands and reworks material found in Genesis to Exodus 15. ... Japheth (יֶפֶת / יָפֶת enlarge, Standard Hebrew Yéfet / Yáfet, Tiberian Hebrew / ) is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. ... Shem (שֵׁם renown; prosperity; name, Standard Hebrew Å em, Tiberian Hebrew Å Ä“m; Greek Σημ, SÄ“m; ) was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible who adhered to the Noahide Laws. ... This T and O map, which abstracts that societys known world to a cross inscribed within an orb, remakes geography in the service of Christian iconography and identifies the three known continents as populated by descendents of Shem (Sem), Ham (Cham) and Japheth (Iafeth) The Table of Nations is... Approximate extent of Scythia and Sarmatia in the 1st century BC (the orange background shows the spread of Eastern Iranian languages, among them Scytho-Sarmatian). ...

Tanais appears in ancient Greek sources as the name of the river and of a city on it, situated in the Maeotian marshes. The name derives however from Scythian Dānu "river", akin to modern Ossetic don "river". Sarmatian cataphract from Tanais. ... In the geography of Antiquity the Maeotian marshes (Palus Maeotis) lay at where the the Don River emptied into the Maeotian Lake (the Sea of Azov), in Lesser Scythia. ... This article is in need of improvement. ...

At its easternmost point, the Don comes near the Volga, and the Volga-Don Canal (length ca. 105 km (65 miles)), connecting both rivers, has been a major waterway. The Khazar fortress of Sarkel used to dominate this point in the Middle Ages. This part of the river saw Operation Uranus, one of the turning points of the Second World War. For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge  ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ... The Lenin Volga-Don Shipping Canal (In Russian Волго-Донской судоходный канал имени Ð’. И. Ленина) is a canal, which connects the Volga River and the Don River in a closest location between them. ... The Khazars were a Turkic semi-nomadic people from Central Asia who adopted Judaism. ... Sarkel (or Åžarkil; Turkic for White Fortress) was a large limestone-and-brick fortress built by the Khazars with Byzantine assistance in the 830s. ... The eastern front at the time of Operation Uranus. ... Turning Point or a turning point may refer to: The point at which a very significant change occurs; a decisive moment. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

The Don has given its name to the Don Cossacks who settled the fertile valley of the river in the 16th and 17th centuries. In modern literature, the Don figures centrally in the works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, a Cossack from the stanitsa of Veshenskaya.
Don Cossacks refers to cossacks that settled along the Don River, Russia it its lower and middle parts. ... Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (ru: Михаил Александрович Шолохов) (May 24, 1905 (Old Style May 11) - February 21, 1984) was a Russian novelist. ... Stanitsa (Russian: , pronounces stah-nee-tsah) is a village inside a Cossack host or Cossack voisko (Казачье войско, kazachye voysko, sometimes incorrectly translated as Cossack Army). ...

Views of Don River

Don River near khutor Kalininsky in Rostov Oblast (photo 2002). Image File history File linksMetadata Don_kalinin. ... Khutor or hutor (Russian: ; Ukrainian: , Khutir) was usually a single-homestead rural settlement (farmstead) in Ukraine, Russia, and some parts of Central Asia. ... Rostov Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in Southern Federal District. ...	Eagle statue, Don River and stanitsa Veshenskaya in Rostov Oblast (photo 2002). Image File history File linksMetadata Veshki_15. ... Genera Several, see below. ... Stanitsa (Russian: , pronounces stah-nee-tsah) is a village inside a Cossack host or Cossack voisko (Казачье войско, kazachye voysko, sometimes incorrectly translated as Cossack Army). ... Rostov Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in Southern Federal District. ...	Don River near Yelets in Lipetsk Oblast (photo 2001). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1198x779, 1216 KB) Don River near Yelets in Lipetsk Oblast, Russian Federation. ... Yelets (Russian: Елец) is a town in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, on the Sosna River, which is a tributary of the Don River. ... Lipetsk Oblast (Russian: , Lipetskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ...	Don River near Yelets in Lipetsk Oblast (photo 2001). Image File history File linksMetadata Elets_16. ... Yelets (Russian: Елец) is a town in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, on the Sosna River, which is a tributary of the Don River. ... Lipetsk Oblast (Russian: , Lipetskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ...
Don River near stanitsa Veshenskaya in Rostov Oblast (photo 2002). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1144x1756, 2911 KB) Don River near town Veshenskaya in Rostov Oblast, Russian Federation. ... Stanitsa (Russian: , pronounces stah-nee-tsah) is a village inside a Cossack host or Cossack voisko (Казачье войско, kazachye voysko, sometimes incorrectly translated as Cossack Army). ... Rostov Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in Southern Federal District. ...	Don River near village Kalininsky in Rostov Oblast (photo 2002) Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1756x1144, 2816 KB) Don River near village Kalininsky in Rostov Oblast, Russian Federation. ... Rostov Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in Southern Federal District. ...

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