John Krasinski is an American actor, director, and screenwriter who first garnered attention for his portrayal of paper salesman Jim Halpert in the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–13). He later became a successful director, especially known for the horror film A Quiet Place (2018), which launched a

Zygmunt Krasiński was a Polish Romantic poet and dramatist whose works dealt prophetically with the class conflict that would engender Russia’s October Revolution. The son of a leading aristocratic family, Krasiński studied law at Warsaw University before taking up studies in Geneva in 1829. He

Zygmunt Krasiński was a Polish Romantic poet and dramatist whose works dealt prophetically with the class conflict that would engender Russia’s October Revolution. The son of a leading aristocratic family, Krasiński studied law at Warsaw University before taking up studies in Geneva in 1829. He

Slovak literature: Another notable poet was Ivan Krasko (the pseudonym of Ján Botto), whose volumes of verse, Nox et solitudo (1909) and Verše (1912), were among the finest achievements of Slovak literature.

Red Army, Soviet army created by the Communist government after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The name Red Army was abandoned in 1946. The Russian imperial army and navy, together with other imperial institutions of tsarist Russia, disintegrated after the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of

Red Square, open square in Moscow adjoining the historic fortress and centre of government known as the Kremlin (Russian: Kreml). The Kremlin and Red Square were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1990. Dating from the late 15th century, just after the Kremlin walls were completed, Red Square

Lee Krasner was an American painter recognized for her unique contribution to Abstract Expressionism. Krasner was the sixth of seven children of Jewish emigrants from Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine). When she was 13 she decided to become an artist and was admitted on her second application to

Lee Krasner was an American painter recognized for her unique contribution to Abstract Expressionism. Krasner was the sixth of seven children of Jewish emigrants from Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine). When she was 13 she decided to become an artist and was admitted on her second application to

Renovated Church: …priests, notably Aleksandr Vvedensky and Vladimir Krasnitsky, organized a Temporary Higher Church Administration, which rapidly evolved into a general movement aimed at deposing the patriarch and introducing radical church reforms. The Temporary Administration found support among some bishops, but it was particularly popular with the “white,” or married, clergy, who…

Krasnoarmiysk, city, eastern Ukraine. It is an old coal-mining centre of the Donets Basin coalfield, and mining began there in 1884. Other industries have included railway servicing and the production of construction materials. It is the centre of a significant agricultural area. Pop. (2001)

Red Army: …was subsequently called simply a ryadovoy (“ranker”). Discipline in the Soviet forces was always strict and punishments severe; during World War II, penal battalions were given suicidal tasks. In 1960, however, new regulations were introduced making discipline, and certainly punishments, less severe. Officers were to use more persuasion and were…

Krasnoarmiysk, city, eastern Ukraine. It is an old coal-mining centre of the Donets Basin coalfield, and mining began there in 1884. Other industries have included railway servicing and the production of construction materials. It is the centre of a significant agricultural area. Pop. (2001)

Krasnodar, kray (territory), southwestern Russia, extending northward from the crest line of the Caucasus Mountains across the plains east of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov as far as the Gulf of Taganrog. The plains, crossed by the Kuban and other rivers flowing to the Sea of Azov, form

Krasnodar, city and administrative centre of Krasnodar kray (territory), southwestern Russia, lying along the Kuban River. Founded about 1793 as a Cossack guardpost on the Kuban frontier, it developed as a military town. In 1867, after the Caucasian wars, it became a city and centre of the fertile

Krasnodon, coal-mining city, eastern Ukraine. It lies on the Great (Bilsha) Kam’yanka River. Krasnodon was established in 1914 and incorporated in 1938. Historically, it has been important for the mining of bituminous coal. A local museum commemorates the defense of the city during World War II by

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn: …part of a projected series, Krasnoe koleso (The Red Wheel); other volumes (or uzly [“knots”]) in the series were Oktyabr 1916 (“October 1916”), Mart 1917 (“March 1917”), and Aprel 1917 (“April 1917”).

Krasnogorsk, city and centre of a rayon (sector), Moscow oblast (region), western Russia, a few miles west of Moscow. Situated in the Moscow greenbelt, it was known as Banki before its incorporation as a town in 1940. It now produces cameras and is important for building machinery and plasterwork.

Gatchina, city, Leningrad oblast (province), northwestern Russia, lying about 28 miles (45 km) southwest of St. Petersburg. The first mention of Khotchino dates from 1499, when it was a possession of Novgorod. Later it belonged to Livonia and Sweden. After 1721 it was returned to Russia and in the

Krasnoyarsk, city and administrative centre of Krasnoyarsk kray (territory), south-central Siberia, Russia. The city stands on both banks of the Yenisey River where the river is crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railroad. One of the earliest Russian settlements in Siberia, it was founded as the fort of

Krasnoyarsk, kray (territory), east-central Russia. It occupies an area of Central Siberia and extends from the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean to the Sayan Mountains in the south. In 2007 the autonomous okruga (districts) of Evenk and Taymyr (Dolgano-Nenets) were merged with

Krasnoyarsk, city and administrative centre of Krasnoyarsk kray (territory), south-central Siberia, Russia. The city stands on both banks of the Yenisey River where the river is crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railroad. One of the earliest Russian settlements in Siberia, it was founded as the fort of

Krasnoyarsk, kray (territory), east-central Russia. It occupies an area of Central Siberia and extends from the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean to the Sayan Mountains in the south. In 2007 the autonomous okruga (districts) of Evenk and Taymyr (Dolgano-Nenets) were merged with

Krasnokamsk, city, Perm kray (territory), western Russia. Krasnokamsk lies along the Kama River. Founded in 1929 as a settlement in connection with the development of a pulp and paper mill, it became a town in 1938 and is now a satellite of Perm city. Oil was discovered nearby in 1934, and a small

Syvash: …the local chemical industries of Krasnoperekopsk, a city in northwestern Crimea.

Krasnoturinsk, town, Sverdlovsk oblast (region), western Russia. The town lies along the Turya River in the eastern foothills of the Northern Ural Mountains. Founded in 1758, it was called Turinskiye Rudniki (“Turinsky Mines”) until 1944, when it became the town of Krasnoturinsk. Now a centre of

Krasnoturinsk, town, Sverdlovsk oblast (region), western Russia. The town lies along the Turya River in the eastern foothills of the Northern Ural Mountains. Founded in 1758, it was called Turinskiye Rudniki (“Turinsky Mines”) until 1944, when it became the town of Krasnoturinsk. Now a centre of

Krasnoturinsk, town, Sverdlovsk oblast (region), western Russia. The town lies along the Turya River in the eastern foothills of the Northern Ural Mountains. Founded in 1758, it was called Turinskiye Rudniki (“Turinsky Mines”) until 1944, when it became the town of Krasnoturinsk. Now a centre of

Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov was an imperial Russian army officer and a commander of anti-Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War. During World War II he helped organize anti-Soviet Cossack units for the Germans and urged the creation of a Cossack state under German protection. The son of a

Turkmenbashi, port city, western Turkmenistan. The city was renamed in 1993 by Turkmenistan’s dictator-president, Saparmurad Niyazov, who patterned the new name after his own formal title of Turkmenbashi (“Head of the Turkmen”). The city lies on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, at the foot of

Krasnoyarsk, kray (territory), east-central Russia. It occupies an area of Central Siberia and extends from the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean to the Sayan Mountains in the south. In 2007 the autonomous okruga (districts) of Evenk and Taymyr (Dolgano-Nenets) were merged with

Krasnoyarsk, city and administrative centre of Krasnoyarsk kray (territory), south-central Siberia, Russia. The city stands on both banks of the Yenisey River where the river is crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railroad. One of the earliest Russian settlements in Siberia, it was founded as the fort of

Yenisey River: Physiography: …and the long and narrow Krasnoyarsk Reservoir, contained on the east by northwestern spurs of the Eastern Sayan, begins. The reservoir stretches some 240 miles (390 km) downstream to Divnogorsk. Downstream from the reservoir and slightly above Krasnoyarsk, the river valley broadens, as does the bed. Rapids are common there,…

Yenisey River: Physiography: …and the long and narrow Krasnoyarsk Reservoir, contained on the east by northwestern spurs of the Eastern Sayan, begins. The reservoir stretches some 240 miles (390 km) downstream to Divnogorsk. Downstream from the reservoir and slightly above Krasnoyarsk, the river valley broadens, as does the bed. Rapids are common there,…

Krasnoye Selo, rayon (sector), St. Petersburg, northwestern Russia. The name Krasnoye Selo, meaning “beautiful village,” has been in use since 1730, when it described three settlements located southwest of St. Petersburg. Krasnoye Selo was the site of one of the summer residences for the tsars and

Africa: Red tropical soils and laterites: The majority of tropical soils have shades of colour varying from yellow and brown to red. The reddish colour reflects the presence of iron oxides that form as a result of chemical weathering. At one time all tropical red earths…

Krasnyy Luch, city, eastern Ukraine, on the southern slopes of the Donets Hills. Originally established as a mining site in the 1880s, it was incorporated as a city in 1926. Krasnyy Luch historically has been an important anthracite-mining centre of the Donets Basin coalfield. The city also has

Krasnoyarsk, city and administrative centre of Krasnoyarsk kray (territory), south-central Siberia, Russia. The city stands on both banks of the Yenisey River where the river is crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railroad. One of the earliest Russian settlements in Siberia, it was founded as the fort of

Krasnyy Luch, city, eastern Ukraine, on the southern slopes of the Donets Hills. Originally established as a mining site in the 1880s, it was incorporated as a city in 1926. Krasnyy Luch historically has been an important anthracite-mining centre of the Donets Basin coalfield. The city also has

Harvey Milk: Election and death: …“Twinkie defense” by the satirist Paul Krassner while reporting on the trial for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. White’s conviction on the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter sparked an uproar in the city that was subsequently termed the “White Night Riot.” White was sentence to seven years and eight months…

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski was a Polish novelist, poet, literary critic, dramatist, historian, and journalist who was the dominant prose writer of Poland’s Romantic period. Kraszewski attended the University of Wilno (now V. Kapsukas State University), was imprisoned in 1830 on a charge of conspiracy

László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter known for postmodern works that explore absurdist, dystopian themes and employ long, labyrinthine sentences that wind through hundreds of pages. In 2025 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature and was cited by the Nobel committee “for his

krater, ancient Greek vessel used for diluting wine with water. It usually stood on a tripod in the dining room, where wine was mixed. Kraters were made of metal or pottery and were often painted or elaborately ornamented. In Homer’s Iliad the prize offered by Achilles for the footrace at

Rudolf Bauer: …Rebay and artist Otto Nebel, Die Krater (1920). The latter was formed out of the conviction that painting should be nonrepresentational and the visual expression of the artistic experience. In 1920 Bauer’s first works appeared in America by way of artist and collector Katherine Dreier, who introduced Americans to many…

Krâchéh, town, northeastern Cambodia. Krâchéh is located on the eastern bank of the Mekong River, at the head of Mekong navigation. It has a port and is linked to Phnom Penh, the national capital, and to neighbouring areas by a national highway. There are slate quarries near the town, and the

athletics: The sprints: Jarmila Kratochvilova (Czechoslovakia) won a rare double victory in the women’s 400- and 800-meter events at the 1983 World Championships.

history of photography: Development of the daguerreotype: That same month another Viennese, Franz Kratochwila, freely published a chemical acceleration process in which the combined vapours of chlorine and bromine increased the sensitivity of the plate by five times.

kratom, (Mitragyna speciosa), large evergreen tree of the coffee or madder family, the leaves of which function as a drug when ingested. Native to Southeast Asia, kratom has been used for centuries in traditional medicine and recreationally. Kratom is reported to produce stimulant-like effects when

Southeast Asian arts: Central Javanese period: 7th–13th century: …chieftains who lived in their kratons (fortified villages) seemed to have derived great inspiration, prestige, and practical assistance from the skills and ideas imported from India. In Sumatra there was the important but so far enigmatic Indianized kingdom of Shrivijaya, which, from its strategic position on the Strait of Malacca,…

Karl Kraus was an Austrian journalist, critic, playwright, and poet who has been compared with Juvenal and Jonathan Swift for his satiric vision and command of language. In German literature, he ranks as an outstanding writer of the World War I era, but, because his work is almost untranslatably

Maria Kraus-Boelté was a German American educator, one of the early exponents of kindergarten, who trained many teachers for that specialization. Maria Boelté was of a prominent family and was privately educated. As a young woman she became interested in the work of Friedrich Froebel in the

human sensory reception: Nerve function: …Pacinian corpuscles, Meissner’s corpuscles, and Krause end bulbs.

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause was a German philosopher who attracted a considerable following, especially in Spain, where his disciples, known as krausistas, greatly influenced the direction of Spanish education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Krause’s system of philosophy, which he

Six Feet Under: …prodigal eldest son, Nate (Peter Krause), home from Seattle. Grudgingly, Nate becomes a partner in the business and takes his place in the family, which includes his brother, David (Michael C. Hall), who hides his homosexuality from most of the world; his eccentric mother, Ruth (Frances Conroy); and his…

beer: Maturation and packaging: …of actively fermenting wort (called krausen) generates carbon dioxide, which is vented and purges the green beer of undesirable volatile compounds. Continued yeast activity also removes strong flavouring compounds such as diacetyl. Allowing pressure to build up in the sealed vessel then increases the level of carbonation, giving the beer…

Tatjana Hüfner: …and teammates Sylke Otto and Silke Kraushaar-Pielach swept the women’s singles bracket, with Otto taking the gold medal, Kraushaar-Pielach the silver, and Hüfner the bronze.

Alison Krauss is an American bluegrass fiddler and singer who—alone and in collaboration with her band, Union Station—performs folk, gospel, country, pop, and rock songs in the unamplified bluegrass style. She played a major role in the early 21st-century revival of interest in bluegrass music.

Star Trek and Our Nuclear World: …humanity possessed the tools for its own annihilation.

Leo Castelli was an art dealer of Hungarian and Italian descent whose promotion of American painters helped contemporary American art gain acceptance in Europe. Castelli was brought up in an affluent Jewish family in Trieste. During World War I the family moved to Vienna. After the war they moved

The History of Love: …Love, novel by American writer Nicole Krauss that was published in 2005 and was later adapted as a 2016 film.

Rosalind Krauss is an American art critic and historian of 20th-century art who first came to prominence when she accused the art critic Clement Greenberg of mishandling the estate of sculptor David Smith. Krauss first became interested in 20th-century art criticism as an undergraduate at Wellesley

Ferenc Krausz is a Hungarian-born Austrian physicist who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experiments with attosecond pulses of light. He shared the prize with French physicists Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier. An attosecond is 10−18 second, or one billionth of a billionth of

Leo Castelli was an art dealer of Hungarian and Italian descent whose promotion of American painters helped contemporary American art gain acceptance in Europe. Castelli was brought up in an affluent Jewish family in Trieste. During World War I the family moved to Vienna. After the war they moved

Kraftwerk: The movement, dubbed “Krautrock” by British journalists, also included such innovative bands as Can, Faust, and Neu!, but Kraftwerk became the best known.

Krâvanh Mountains, range of high hills in southwestern Cambodia that is situated on a southeast-northwest axis and continues westward into the highland area around Chanthaburi, Thailand. The Krâvanh Mountains extend (some discontinuously) for about 100 miles (160 km) southeast and east to the

hunger strike: First hunger strikes and the Russian revolutionary movement: …dissident and former artillery officer, Sergius Kravchinskii.

Leonid Kravchuk was the president of Ukraine from 1991 to 1994. For 30 years a Communist Party functionary, he converted to nationalist politics after the collapse of the Soviet regime. He was the first democratically elected president of Ukraine. In 1958 Kravchuk graduated from the Kiev T.H.

Leonid Kravchuk was the president of Ukraine from 1991 to 1994. For 30 years a Communist Party functionary, he converted to nationalist politics after the collapse of the Soviet regime. He was the first democratically elected president of Ukraine. In 1958 Kravchuk graduated from the Kiev T.H.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Nocturnal Animals, and Bullet Train: …situations, and the superhero movie Kraven the Hunter, in which he played the title character. That year Taylor-Johnson also had a supporting role in Nosferatu, a remake of the 1922 horror film based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Lenny Kravitz is an American musician known for his unique blend of rock, psychedelia, soul, funk, and hip-hop. From 1999 to 2002 Kravitz won four consecutive Grammy Awards for best male rock vocal performance—the most wins ever in the category. He is also known for his appearances in several films

Lenny Kravitz is an American musician known for his unique blend of rock, psychedelia, soul, funk, and hip-hop. From 1999 to 2002 Kravitz won four consecutive Grammy Awards for best male rock vocal performance—the most wins ever in the category. He is also known for his appearances in several films

Zoë Kravitz is an American actress and director known for portraying multifaceted, quietly powerful women in a variety of roles, most notably Catwoman in The Batman (2022). Kravitz is the daughter of Lisa Bonet, an actress best known for playing Denise Huxtable on the TV series The Cosby Show

Zoë Kravitz is an American actress and director known for portraying multifaceted, quietly powerful women in a variety of roles, most notably Catwoman in The Batman (2022). Kravitz is the daughter of Lisa Bonet, an actress best known for playing Denise Huxtable on the TV series The Cosby Show

cyanoacrylate: …names as Super Glue and Krazy Glue, bond almost instantly to a variety of surfaces, including metal, plastic, and glass. Because they adhere strongly to skin, they are also employed by surgeons for closing incisions and by morticians for sealing eyes and lips.

comic strip: The United States: upon slapstick, but George Herriman’s Krazy Kat (1911–44) placed the slapstick in a tender world of poetry, at once surreal and humorous. Drawn with the greatest of graphic economy, it presented the absurd interrelationships of a tiny cast of characters (basically three), using the thinnest imaginable plot line. Krazy Kat…

John Alden Carpenter: … (1917) and into his ballets Krazy Kat: A Jazz Pantomime (1922) and Skyscrapers (1926). The last was later made into a symphonic piece, and Krazy Kat was based on the George Herriman comic strip of the same name. Carpenter’s humorous orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator (1914) also won considerable…

Henri Kréa was an Algerian-born poet, dramatist, and novelist whose works deal with alienation and identity, nature, heroism, and moral and social change in Algeria. Like the hero of his first and only novel, Djamal (1961), Kréa had a French father and an Algerian mother. He attended secondary

tricarboxylic acid cycle, the second stage of cellular respiration, the three-stage process by which living cells break down organic fuel molecules in the presence of oxygen to harvest the energy they need to grow and divide. This metabolic process occurs in most plants, animals, fungi, and many

Edwin Gerhard Krebs was an American biochemist, winner with Edmond H. Fischer of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. They discovered reversible protein phosphorylation, a biochemical process that regulates the activities of proteins in cells and thus governs countless processes that

Johann Ludwig Krebs was a German organist and composer noted for his organ music. Krebs studied under his father and was later a favourite pupil of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach at Leipzig. He was organist at Zwickau, Zeitz, and Altenburg. His organ music is composed in the forms used by Bach

Western architecture: Germany: 1532–44) at Torgau by Konrad Krebs, which is completely medieval in design but has occasional fragments of Classical ornament applied to the surface. The rear portion of the Residence (c. 1537–43) at Landshut is exceptional in that its architecture and decoration are fully Italianate, but this is explained by…

map: Maps of the discoveries: Cardinal Nicholas Krebs drew the first modern map of Germany, engraved in 1491. Martin Waldseemüller of St. Dié prepared an edition with more than 20 modern maps in 1513. Maps showing new discoveries and information were at last transcending the classical treatises of Ptolemy.

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was a German-born British biochemist who received (with Fritz Lipmann) the 1953 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery in living organisms of the series of chemical reactions known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle (also called the citric acid cycle, or Krebs

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs: …reactions (now known as the urea cycle) by which ammonia is converted to urea in mammalian tissue; the urea, far less toxic than ammonia, is subsequently excreted in the urine of most mammals. This cycle also serves as a major source of the amino acid arginine.

Chad: Ethnic groups: …sedentary and coexist with Daza, Kreda, and Arab nomads. The Hadjeray (of the Guera Massif) and Abou Telfân are composed of refugee populations who, living on their mountainous terrain, have resisted various invasions. On the plains surrounding the Hadjeray are the Bulala, Kuka, and the Midogo, who are sedentary peoples.…

history of Europe: The impact of the slump: …first among them the great Kreditanstalt of Vienna, which collapsed in May 1931. The Bank of England, at that time, was losing gold at the rate of £2.5 million a day. Everywhere, industrial production fell: by 40 percent in Germany, 14 percent in Britain, and 29 percent in France.

Germany: Public and cooperative institutions: The state-owned Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (“Development Loan Corporation”) channels public aid to developing countries.

KREEP, a suite of lunar lavas, relatively enriched in certain elements, that were identified in the analysis of rock samples that Apollo astronauts brought back from the Moon. The elements include potassium (chemical symbol K), rare-earth elements, and phosphorus (P), from which the acronym KREEP

Krefeld, city and port, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. The medieval city centre of Krefeld is situated 6 miles (10 km) west of the Rhine River. The city stretches in an east-west direction, with Uerdingen, a second city centre, lying along the Rhine itself and containing a

Klabund: …renderings include Der Kreidekreis (1924; The Circle of Chalk), a drama that inspired the German playwright Bertolt Brecht to write his play Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (The Caucasian Chalk Circle).

Rosi Mittermaier: …came in second to Canadian Kathy Kreiner, who was faster by only one-eighth of a second.

Kreis, (German: “Circle”), any of the several imperial circles (administrative districts) of the Holy Roman Empire from the early 16th century until its dissolution in 1806, a period in which the empire became an increasingly looser federation of principalities. The Kreise were the Burgundian,

Kreis, (German: “Circle”), any of the several imperial circles (administrative districts) of the Holy Roman Empire from the early 16th century until its dissolution in 1806, a period in which the empire became an increasingly looser federation of principalities. The Kreise were the Burgundian,

Bruno Kreisky was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria and chancellor of Austria (1970–83). Kreisky joined the Social Democratic Party in 1926; he was active in the party until it was outlawed in 1934. In 1935 he was arrested for political reasons and imprisoned for 18 months. He

Jacob Moleschott: His most important work, Kreislauf des Lebens (1852; “The Circuit of Life”), added considerable impetus to 19th-century materialism by demanding “scientific answers to scientific questions.”

Fritz Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist who was a “secret” composer of short violin pieces. At age seven Kreisler entered the Vienna Conservatory, and from 1885 to 1887 he studied composition and violin at the Paris Conservatory. After a successful concert tour of the United States (1888–89),

program music: …connection between movements of his Kreisleriana, yet his music differs from Weber’s not so much in its lack of programmatic intent as in its lack of written program. The lines are blurred more thoroughly in the music of Franz Liszt, possibly the best-known composer of program music, whose specifically programmatic…

Achelous River: …at Kastraki; the other, at Kremasta, is the highest (490 feet [150 metres]) earth-fill dam in Europe. At the mouth of the river, where it is less than 2 feet deep, a number of small islands, the Ekhinádhes, have been enveloped by the silt. The name Aspropótamos (White River) is…

Kremenchuk, city, central Ukraine. The city lies along the Dnieper River where it is crossed by the Kharkiv-Kirovohrad railway. Founded in 1571 as a fortress, Kremenchuk acquired city status in 1765. In the 20th century the city and the Kryukiv district across the river developed important

Kremenchuk, city, central Ukraine. The city lies along the Dnieper River where it is crossed by the Kharkiv-Kirovohrad railway. Founded in 1571 as a fortress, Kremenchuk acquired city status in 1765. In the 20th century the city and the Kryukiv district across the river developed important

Ukraine: Drainage: …on the Dnieper upstream from Kremenchuk. The Kakhovka, Dnieper, Dniprodzerzhynsk, Kaniv, and Kyiv reservoirs make up the rest of the Dnieper cascade. Smaller reservoirs are located on the Dniester and Southern Buh rivers and on tributaries of the Donets River. Small reservoirs for water supply also are found near Kryvyy…