Hirskyi Tikych () is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
in
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
, 167 km in length, a
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drai ...
of the
Tikych
The Tikych () is a short river, just long, in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. It is formed by the confluence of its source rivers Hnyly Tikych and Hirsky Tikych, and flows to its own confluence with the Velyka Vys at Skaleva ( Holovanivsk Raion), whi ...
, in the basin of
Southern Bug. The Hirskyi Tikych river finds its source near the village of Frontivka in
Orativ Raion,
Vinnytsia Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast ( uk, Ві́нницька о́бласть, translit=Vinnytska oblast; ; also referred to as Vinnychchyna — uk, Ві́нниччина) is an oblast of western and southwestern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Vinnytsia. ...
. It joins the 157 km long
Hnylyi Tikych to form the Tikych, which soon joins the
Velyka Vys
The Velyka Vys () is a river in Ukraine, a left tributary of the Synyukha, in the basin of the Southern Bug. It is long and its basin area is . river to form the
Syniukha river, which flows 110 km to join the
Southern Bug.
References
* Географічна енциклопедія України: в 3-х томах / Редколегія: О. М. Маринич (відпов. ред.) та ін. — К.: «Українська радянська енциклопедія» імені М. П. Бажана, 1989.
Rivers of Vinnytsia Oblast
Rivers of Cherkasy Oblast
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