230 submerged villages along the Old Dnipro Riverbed by Texty.org.ua

Texty.org.ua explores the transformation of the Dnipro River's landscape in Ukraine after the construction of six major reservoirs, which submerged 230 villages. The authors reconstruct the old riverbed, showing how it looked before the reservoirs and highlighting the human and ecological impact of the submerged settlements. It delves into the historical context of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Cascade and questions whether the economic and industrial benefits were worth the environmental and cultural losses.
232 settlements are only those that we could find on the maps.
The Kyiv Reservoir, located north of Kyiv, conceals the old Dnieper River channel as well as part of the Pripyat River. According to the estimates of Texty.org.ua, it submerged the fewest villages of all reservoirs in the cascade—13 in total. However, after the Chornobyl disaster, many other settlements along its banks were abandoned too. Chornobyl also caused the fact that of all the reservoirs of the Dnieper Cascade, "...only Kyivske cannot be drained." At the bottom of the artificial sea lie tons of radioactive sludge.
The other one, Kakhovka Reservoir, flooded the Velykyi Luh, meaning “Great Meadow," one of the most important natural and historical landscapes in Ukraine, with historical spots from the Cossack era. 29 settlements went to the bottom there. Texty made a special publication on this topic: https://texty.org.ua/projects/111631/velykyi-luh-map-great-meadow/