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Zbruch River , also spelled "Zbrucz River," is a river
River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
 in Western Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
, a left tributary of the Dniester
Dniester

The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe....
. It flows within the Podolia Upland. Zbruch is the namesake of the Zbruch idol
Zbruch Idol

The Zbruch Idol is a 9th century sculpture, and one of the rarest monuments of pre-Christian Slavic mythology. The pillar is commonly associated with the Slavic deity Svantevit, although opinions on the exact meaning of all the bas-reliefs and their symbols differ....
, a sculpture of a Slavic deity (9th century) in the form of a column with a head with four faces, found in 1848 by the river.

Between 1772 and 1807, and between 1815 and 1918 the river was a border between the Austrian
Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire was a periodization successor state empire founded on a remnant of the Holy Roman Empire centered on what is today's Austria that officially lasted from 1804 to 1867....
 Galicia
Galicia (Central Europe)

Galicia is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, named after Ukra?ni?n city of Halych.The nucleus of historic Galicia is formed of three regions of western Ukraine: Lvivska oblast, Ternopilska oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast....
 on one side and Imperial Russia on the other.






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Zbruch River , also spelled "Zbrucz River," is a river
River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
 in Western Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
, a left tributary of the Dniester
Dniester

The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe....
. It flows within the Podolia Upland. Zbruch is the namesake of the Zbruch idol
Zbruch Idol

The Zbruch Idol is a 9th century sculpture, and one of the rarest monuments of pre-Christian Slavic mythology. The pillar is commonly associated with the Slavic deity Svantevit, although opinions on the exact meaning of all the bas-reliefs and their symbols differ....
, a sculpture of a Slavic deity (9th century) in the form of a column with a head with four faces, found in 1848 by the river.

Between 1772 and 1807, and between 1815 and 1918 the river was a border between the Austrian
Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire was a periodization successor state empire founded on a remnant of the Holy Roman Empire centered on what is today's Austria that officially lasted from 1804 to 1867....
 Galicia
Galicia (Central Europe)

Galicia is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, named after Ukra?ni?n city of Halych.The nucleus of historic Galicia is formed of three regions of western Ukraine: Lvivska oblast, Ternopilska oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast....
 on one side and Imperial Russia on the other. Following the Polish-Ukrainian Alliance of 1920 it was intended as the border between Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 and Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
. After the Treaty of Riga the Polish-Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 border was established in the area, running along the river.

It is 247 km in length and its drainage basin is 3,330 kmē
Square kilometre

Square kilometre , symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI Units of measurement of surface area, the square metre, one of the SI derived units....
.