Vorskla River

The Vorskla River (Russian: Ворскла; Ukrainian: Ворскла, Polish: Worskla, German: Hureanus), located in Russia and northeastern Ukraine, is a south-flowing tributary of the Dnieper River.

An ancient fort, thought to be Gelonos, is on the Vorskla south of Okhtyrka. In 1399, the Battle of the Vorskla River was fought in the area. In 1709, the city of Poltava, on the banks of the Vorskla River, was besieged by Charles XII.

It has a length of 464 km, a basin area of 14,700 km² and is mostly navigable between its delta and Kobelyaky.

Tributaries of the river are: (Right): Vorsklytsia, Boromlya, (Left): Merlo, Kolomak, and Tahamlik.

Large cities located on the river are: Poltava, the capital of the Poltava Oblast, Okhtyrka and Kobeliaky.

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v t e Dnieper River
Tributaries¹	Bazavluk Berezina Bilozerka Desna Drut Inhulets Irpin Konka (Kherson) Konka (Zaporizhzhia) Oril Pripyat Psel Rohachyk Ros Samara Sozh Stuhna Sula Supii Teteriv Tiasmyn Trubizh Vorskla Zolotonoshka
Reservoirs	Dnieper Kakhovka Kamianske Kaniv Kremenchuk Kyiv
Hydroelectric stations	Dnieper Kakhovka Kaniv Kyiv HPP Kyiv PSP Kremenchuk Middle Dnieper
Canals	Dnieper - Donbas Dnieper - Inhulets Dnieper - Kryvyi Rih Kakhovka North Crimean
Cities	Cherkasy Dnipro Dorogobuzh Kyiv Mogilev Smolensk
Crossings	in Ukraine
¹ Italics indicate left tributaries