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The celebration of the Western Bug Day was first started in 2019 at the meeting of the Basin Council of the Western Bug and Xyan Rivers.<\/p>\n
Bug (\u0411\u0443\u0433, \u0411\u043e\u0433\u044a) is a name of Indo-European origin that first appears on the pages of ancient chronicles alongside the ethnonym “buzhany”. The name comes from the Indo-European root *bheug(h) \u2014 “to bend, bend”, etymologically related to the Proto-Slavic infinitive *b\u044agati \u2014 “to bend, twist” and to the Proto-Slavic root *bag- \/\/ *bog- \/\/ *bug – with the reconstructed meaning “flooded place; current, flow”, related to the Proto-Slavic noun *bag-no – “swamp, swamp”. The name indicates the features of the hydroscape of the river with a large number of bends and wetlands.<\/p>\n
The length is 772 km (in Ukraine 392 km), the area of the basin is 39,420 km\u00b2 (in Ukraine – 10,100 km\u00b2). The slope of the river is 0.3 m\/km. The Western Bug is a plain river (swampy floodplain, old trees, winding stream); there are many lakes in the river basin, including Shatsky Lakes. Navigable in the lower current.<\/p>\n
There are 7 reservoirs with a total volume of 31.4 million m\u00b3 in the river basin on the territory of Lviv region. The largest of them: Dobrotvirske \u2014 14.8 million m\u00b3 and Sokalske \u2014 4.92 million m\u00b3.<\/p>\n
The average annual water flow varies along the length of the river from 1.12 (the village of Sasiv) to 29.5 m\u00b3\/s (the city of Sokal).<\/p>\n
In the conditional structure on the border of Ukraine, Poland and Belarus, the average water flow of the Zahidny Bug River is 52.3 m\u00b3\/s (obtained by the calculation method of Ukrainian hydrologists).<\/p>\n
The average mineralization of river water is: spring flood \u2014 497 mg\/dm\u00b3; summer-autumn limit \u2014 518 mg\/dm\u00b3; winter limit \u2014 573 mg\/dm\u00b3.<\/p>\n
The average annual ion flow with the waters of the Western Bug from the territory of Ukraine is 793.5 thousand t\/year (58% – spring flood, 26% – summer-autumn flood, 16% – winter flood).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every year on August 14, the Day of the Western Bug is celebrated, which unites all defenders of the river. The celebration of the Western Bug Day was first started in 2019 at the meeting of the Basin Council of the Western Bug and Xyan Rivers. Bug (\u0411\u0443\u0433, \u0411\u043e\u0433\u044a) is a name of Indo-European origin …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pro-podii"],"yoast_head":"\n