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The Desna is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper. ... muddy plain until it finally reaches its mouth near Kyiv at the Dnieper River. Tributaries. The Desna has many tributaries. The most significant (length more than 100 km) are, from source to mouth: Vetma (left) Bolva (left) Navlya (left)

Desna (dyĬsnä´), river, c.740 mi (1,190 km) long, Russia and Ukraine. It is a main tributary of the Dnieper. Rising SE of Smolensk, the Desna flows S and SW past Bryansk and Chernihiv, joining the Dnieper above Kiev. It is navigable for c.330 mi (530 km) below Novgorod Seversky, Ukraine. Source for information on Desna: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. dictionary.

The Desna (‹See Tfd› Russian: Десна; Ukrainian: Десна) is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper.Its name means "right hand" in the Old East Slavic language. [citation needed] It has a length of 1,130 km (702 mi), and its drainage basin covers 88,900 km 2 (34,324 sq mi).[1]In Ukraine, the river's width ranges from 60 to 250 metres (200 to 820 ft ...