Podolia or Podilia is a historic region in Eastern Europe, located in the west-central and south-western parts of Ukraine and in northeastern Moldova. The name derives from Old Slavic po, meaning "by/next to/along" and dol, "valley".
The Narew, is a 499-kilometre (310 mi) river primarily in north-eastern Poland, which is also a tributary of the river Vistula. The Narew is one of Europe's few braided rivers, the term relating to the twisted channels resembling braided hair. Around 57 kilometres (35 mi) of the river flows through western Belarus.
The Pripyat or Prypiat is a river in Eastern Europe, approximately 761 km (473 mi) long. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper.
Khmelnytskyi Oblast is an oblast (province) of western Ukraine covering portions of such historical regions like western Podolia and southern Volhynia. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Khmelnytskyi.
The Bug or Western Bug is a major river mostly located in Eastern Europe, which flows through three countries with a total length of 774 kilometres (481 mi).
The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh, and sometimes Boh River, is a navigable river located in Ukraine. It is the second-longest river in Ukraine.
Mykolaiv, previously known as Nikolaev or Nikolayev is a city and municipality in southern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv is arguably the main shipbuilding center of the Black Sea. Aside from three shipyards within the city, there are a number of research centers specializing in shipbuilding such as the State Research and Design Shipbuilding Center, Zoria-Mashproekt and others. The city has a population of 476,101 .
Inhul is a left tributary of the Southern Bug (Boh) and is the 14th longest river of Ukraine. It flows through Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv regions.
Fedir Kindratovych Vovk was a Ukrainian anthropologist-archaeologist, the curator of the Alexander III Museum in St. Petersburg.
The Inhulets or Ingulets is a river, a right tributary of the Dnieper, which flows through Ukraine. It has a length of 557 km and a drainage basin of 14,460 km².
The Treaty of Bakhchisarai or Treaty of Radzin, was signed in Bakhchisaray, which ended the Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681), on 3 January 1681 by Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Crimean Khanate.
Vovk is a surname of Ukrainian origin that means wolf. It currently predominates among East and South Slavs in Ukraine, Belarus, Slovenia, and Croatia. Notable people with the surname include:
The Dnieper–Bug estuary is an open estuary, or liman, of two rivers: the Dnieper and the Southern Bug. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea and is separated from it by Kinburn Spit and the Cape of Ochakiv.
Andrey Vovk is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster (2009).
The Solokiya is a river in Poland and Ukraine and a tributary of the Bug. Its source is located north of Tomaszów Lubelski and in its upper reaches the Solokiya runs mainly in a southeastern direction. Near the crossing of the Polish-Ukrainian border it turns to the east and after passing through Uhniv and Belz it flows in Chervonohrad as a left affluent into the Western Bug.
The Velyka Vys is a river in Ukraine, a left tributary of the Synyukha, in the basin of the Southern Bug. It is 166 kilometres (103 mi) long and its basin area is 2,860 square kilometres (1,104 sq mi). The Velyka Vys river finds its source near the village of Onykiyeve in Novoukrainka Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast. It flows through Novomyrhorod.
The Luha is a river in Ukraine and a right tributary of the Bug. Its source is located near village Kolpytiv located at the Horokhiv Upland and in its upper reaches the Luha runs mainly in western, northwestern direction, later in northward. In its lower stream it runs mainly in northwestern direction and enters Western Bug on northwestern outskirts of the city of Ustyluh.
Syniukha is a river in Ukraine, a left tributary of the Southern Bug, the basin of Black Sea. Its name means blue or of blue shade. It is 111 kilometres (69 mi) long and its basin area is 16,700 square kilometres (6,448 sq mi). It is formed at the confluence of its source rivers Tikych and Velyka Vys. It flows into the Southern Bug at Pervomaysk.
The Chychyklia is a river in Ukraine and a right tributary of the Southern Bug that flows through Odessa Oblast and Mykolaiv Oblast at the border between the Podolian Upland and Black Sea Lowland within the Ukrainian steppe. The river often dries away for up to six months.
