Desna
The Desna is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper.
The Desna is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper. Its name in Old East Slavic: деснъ means lit. "right hand". It has a length of 1,130 km (702 mi), and its drainage basin covers 88,900 km2 (34,324 sq mi).
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Worth seeing in and around Desna
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant
Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant is a run-of-river power plant on the Dnieper River in Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. The 288 m long dam creates the Kyiv Reservoir with the purpose of hydroelectric power generation and navigability with the dam's associated lock.
4.7 km · dam in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine · Wikipedia - 02Holly Trinity Cathedral
The Troieshchyna Cathedral is one of the largest Ukrainian Orthodox churches in Kyiv. It was built on the outskirts of Kyiv, in the former village of Troieshchyna, between 1990 and 1997.
5.7 km · orthodox cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine · Wikipedia - 03Obolon Arena
Obolon Arena is a football stadium in the city of Kyiv, Ukraine. It is the home ground of football club Obolon Kyiv.
3.4 km · association football stadium in Ukraine · Wikipedia
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Getting to Desna
- Stations
- Heroiv Dnipra, 4.2 km · Minska, 5.1 km · Ronalda Reihana, 5.9 km · Myloslavska, 5.5 km
- Brest → Desna515 km · quickest by road, 13h 13m · $50–70
- Minsk → Desna431 km · quickest by road, 18h 14m · $80–110
- Chişinău → Desna413 km · quickest by road, 11h 40m · $43–60
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Desna
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Desna. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAll 4 are supported across the municipal transport network, including the funicular.
- Get aroundYou can also travel on so-called route taxis or minivans called marshrutky (маршрутки).
- Get aroundMarshrutka routes can be hard to figure out, but they have a list of stops on the window and a Metro logo for the metro stops.
- Get aroundYou can hail a marshrutka at the assigned bus stops.
- Get aroundKyiv Tsyfrovyi card / QR code cannot be used in marshrutkas.
From Wikivoyage: Kyiv, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Desna
Desna is 11 km from Kyiv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.