The Derkul is a left tributary of the Donets located in the Luhansk Oblast of northeast Ukraine, on the border to the Rostov Oblast of Russia.[1] It is 163 kilometres (101 mi) long, and has a catchment area of 5,180 square kilometres (2,000 sq mi).[2] The river in non-navigable.[3]
The Derkul rises north of Markivka in the Ukrainian Luhansk Oblast on the western foothills of the Central Russian Upland. It flows mainly in a southerly direction through a hilly plain in the northeast of the oblast and after 163 km flows on the left into the Siverskyi Donets. In parts of the lower course, it forms a border of the Rostov Oblast of Russia. The Derkul flows through the urban-type settlement of Bilovodsk at the lower reaches. The most important tributary of the Derkul is the Polnaya from the left.
Archaeology
A Lower Paleolithic campsite of Le Moustier era is located near the confluence of Derkul and Donets. It was studied by Petro Yefymenko (1924-1926) and Sergey Zamyatnin (1933).[3]
References
- ^ a b c Деркул (река в Ворошиловградской обл.), Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- ^ a b c «Река Деркул (Деркуль)», Russian State Water Registry
- ^ a b Енциклопедія українознавства. Словникова частина (ЕУ-II). Vol. 2. 1993. pp. 502–505.
