The Haradnichanka, Haradnitsa ( be, Гараднічанка, Гарадніца; russian: Городничанка, Gorodnichanka; lt, Gardinėlė) is a river in
Grodno and
Grodno District
Grodno District or Hrodna District ( be, Гродзенскі раён; russian: Гродненский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region of Belarus.
The administrative center is Grodno, which, however, does not form part of the d ...
, Belarus.
The headwaters of the Haradnichanka river are in the Kulbaki village to the north-west of
Grodno,
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...
.
The river has one tributary - the Yurysdyka stream.
The river roughly follows the edge of the glaciation during the last
ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and gre ...
.
The Haradnichanka river enters the Neman River near the Orthodox church of Sts. Boris and Gleb
Kolozha and the
Old Grodno Castle
The Old Grodno Castle (also known as the ''Grodno Upper Castle'' and ''Bathory's Castle'') originated in the 11th century as the seat of a dynasty of Black Ruthenian rulers, descended from a younger son of Yaroslav the Wise of Kiev.
History
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Grodno
Rivers of Grodno Region
Rivers of Belarus
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