In Ukraine, the Dnieper evaporates from the banks of Nikopol

A week after the destruction of the Nova Kakovka hydroelectric dam, the city of Nikopol, upstream, found the Kakovka reservoir irretrievably empty. In homes, the taps run dry and the landscape resumes its contours of 70 years ago.


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EIt was formerly called Mykytyn Rih and occupies a long peninsula between two arms of the Dnieper, where its banks are low and marshy, and for centuries one of the most convenient crossings of the middle Dnieper. Nicopolis in 1911 by the Hon Encyclopaedia Britannica. Thirty-five years later, due to the Soviet technological century’s desire to control nature, the former Cossack fortress-turned-industrial city saw the waters rise after the construction of the Nova Kakovka Dam on the Dnieper in 1956. By the gigantic Khakovka Reservoir, which has submerged centuries of history to supply the needs of industry and agriculture in southern Ukraine.



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