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		Don River, RussiaDon River watershedLocationCountriesRussia, UkrainePhysical characteristicsSource&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;locationRussia
MouthSea of AzovLength1,870 km (1,162 mi)Basin size425,600 km² (164,324 mi²)Discharge&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;average935 m³/s

This article is about the river in Western Russia. For other rivers with the same name, see Don River (disambiguation).
The Don (Дон) is one of the major rivers of Russia. It starts in the town of Novomoskovsk 60&nbsp;km southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,870&nbsp;km (1,162 miles) to the Sea of Azov.
From its source, the river first flows southeast to Voronezh, then southwest to its mouth. The main city on the river is Rostov on Don, its main tributary, the Donets.

History
In antiquity, the river was seen as the border between Europe and Asia.[1] In the Hebrew Book of Jubilees, it is mentioned as being part of the border, beginning with its westernmost point up to its mouth, between the allotment of Japheth to the north and that of Shem to the south, sons of Noah. During the times of the old Scythians it was known in Greek as the Tanaïs, and has been a major trading route ever since.
Tanais appears in ancient Greek sources as the name of the river and of a city on it in the Maeotian marshes.  The name derives however from Scythian (Iranian) Dānu "river", akin to modern Ossetic don "river".
At its easternmost point, the Don comes near the Volga, and the Volga-Don Canal (length ca. 105&nbsp;km (65 miles)), connecting both rivers, has been a major waterway. The Khazar fortress of Sarkel used to dominate this point in the Middle Ages. This part of the river saw Operation Uranus, one of the turning points of the Second World War.
The Don has given its name to the Don Cossacks who settled the fertile valley of the river in the 16th and 17th centuries. In modern literature, the Don figures centrally in the works of Mikhail Sholokhov, a Cossack from the stanitsa of Veshenskaya.

Views of Don River

Don River near khutor Kalininsky in Rostov Oblast (photo 2002).

Don River, near Yelets

Map of 1882 showing the River basins of the Don and the Volga rivers

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