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The tulip tree is native to North
America, where it grows from Indiana
and Pencilvannia to Florida and Arkansas.
It has big flowers, with diameter up to
6 sm. The biggest samples of the trees can
be come across only in the basin of the river
Охіе. Such trees can reach the height of 60
m in, with a trunk 3 m in diameter. The
lifespan of the tree can reach 500 years.
The tulip tree was brought to Russia in
1737; for more than 120 years it has been
cultivated in the botanical gardens of Kyiv.
The best time to see Liriodendron is
June when it is covered with bloom.

The Dniester

The Dniester (in Moldavian – Nistru;
Greek name Τύρας, Latin Tyras) is the
third longest river within the borders
of Ukraine (after the Dnieper and the
Southern Bug), and the ninth longest
one in Europe. From Galych to Khotyn,

the river forms the Dniester Canyon,
which was put on the list of the Seven
Natural Wonders of Ukraine. In its
middle course, the Dniester serves as
a historical border between ancient
cultural and ethnographical regions of
Bukovyna and Galicia, and in the upper
and lower courses, between Podyllya and
Bessarabia.
The length of the river is 1,362 km (in
Ukraine – 705 км): the average water flow
in the mouth – 300 m³/second, annual
volume of flow – about 10 km³. The
average slope of the river is 0.56 m/km.
In its upper part (within the
boundaries of the Ukrainian Carpa­
thians), the Dniester is a typical moun­
tainous river with a narrow and deep
valley; lower of the town of Stary Sambir,
it comes on a plain. The Dniester flood
land (within the boundaries of the
Upper Dniester hollow and in the lower

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