Zolocha River

olocha - the river near Kiev, which existed at the time of the Old Russian state , is a left tributary of the Dnieper. Mentioned in the annals also under the names Zolotcha, Zolotch , Zolotka.

The exact geographical location of the river is unknown. According to the "Short Description of Kiev" by M.F. Berlinsky (1820), the Rusanovsky Strait, which separates Hydropark from the left bank of the Dnieper, is now in place of the river, and its mouth was opposite Navodnytskaya Pier, that is, approximately in the area of ​​the modern Paton Bridge. The researcher of the Dnieper N. I. Maksimovich also considered the Rusanovsky Strait as the chronicle of Zoloch. N. V. Zakrevsky in his “Description of Kiev” in 1868 lists three maps on which Zolocha flows along the Trukhanov Island and indicates that its mouth was located much lower than Kiev. Some researchers believe that Zolocha flowed into Dolobskoe Lake, but this contradicts the chronicle story about the portage of Yuri Dolgoruki.

According to modern concepts, the source of the river was located on the lands of the modern Dolobetsky island. It flowed through the meadows on the territory of the island Hydropark and then almost parallel to the Dnieper on the lands near the present residential districts of Kiev Poznyaki, Osokorky , Bortnichi and the village Gnedin. In the place of the Zolocha channel in the floodplain of the left bank of the Dnieper, a number of lakes are preserved, one of which is called Zoloche, it is located near the villages of Gnedin and Vyshenky.

In September 1101, a congress of many princes of Kievan Rus and negotiations with the Polovtsians, which ended in the conclusion of peace, were held on the Zolocha River [1].

Another event in connection with which the chronicles mention Zoloch is the war of Yuri Dolgoruki against the prince of Kiev Izyaslav Mstislavich in 1151. Yuri, avoiding a meeting with Izyaslav's boats on the Dnieper, lowered his ships to Dolobskoe Lake, and from there he moved to Zolocha by float and went down to the Dnieper by it.

Notes Dobrushkin EM. Unpublished manuscript of V. N. Tatishchev on Russian history // Soviet archives. - 1971. - № 5 . Literature Zolocha // Kiev: Encyclopedic Dovdnik / Ed. A. V. Kudritsky. - K .: Head of the editorial office of the Ukrainian Radian Encyclopaedia, 1981. Ribakov M. O. Nevidom and malovidom storinki of the history of Kiev. - K .: “The Cue”, 1997. - p. 142-143. - ISBN 966-7161-15-3. Category :History of Kiev