Zbruch River

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Zbruch River (Ukrainian: Збруч) is a river in Western Ukraine a left tributary of Dniester. It flows within the Podolia Upland (see Podolia). Zbruch is the namesake of Zbruch idol, a sculpture of a Slavic deity (10th century) in the form of a column with the 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 Austrian Galicia on one side and Imperial Russia on the other. Following the Polish-Ukrainian Alliance of 1920 it was intended as the border between Poland and Ukraine. After the Treaty of Riga the Polish-Soviet border was established in the area, running along the river.

It is 247 km in length and its drainage basin is 3,330 km².

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