Bystrytsia (river)
The Bystrytsia is a river, a right tributary of the Dniester which flows through Tysmenytsia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Bystrytsia river is formed by confluence of Bystrytsia of Solotvyn and Bystrytsia of Nadvirna.The Bystrytsia-Nadvirnyanska, a typical mountain river; in its lower course , a river of the plains, has a length of and a drainage basin of, and the Bystrytsia-Solotvynska half has a length of and a drainage basin of.
Both of the branches, typical mountain rivers, of the Bystrytsia river take their sourch in the Gorgany Mountains of the Carpathian mountain range in the Ukrainian province of Ivano-Frankivsk. With the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, the administrative center of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblst, the two branches merge, and then flow south of Halych near the town of Yezupil where the river finally flows into the Dniester.
The name, Bystrytsia, is translated as fast moving from the Slavic word, бистрий - bystry.
