Shostka (tributary of the Desna)

It flows through the territory of Glukhovsky , Yampolsky and Shostkinsky districts of Sumy region of Ukraine. It originates north of the village of Gorely . The valley is trough-like, 2-3 km wide. The floodplain is marshy, consists of peat and sandy soils. The channel is slightly sinuous. Depths prevailing up to 0.5 m (Maximum fixed 1.7 m). The flow velocity is 0.2 m / s. Slope - 1.2 ^[1] m / km. Snow and rain food. The flow is partially regulated by six regulating gateways. The channel is regulated, 40 km long. On the river is the city of Shostka .

12 species of fish were identified in the river. In the river, a decrease in the number of species from source to mouth is observed. If on site with. Poppy - with. Bogdanovka recorded 14 species of fish ( pike , rudd , chub, ide, crucian carp, oatmeal , gudgeon , vodovodka , mustard , char , ordinary pinch , dace , rudd and asp ). The remaining species, apparently, accidentally get here from the Desna. Local fish do not constantly stay here due to severe water pollution. In the river, a decrease in the number of species from source to mouth is observed.

It is known that Ukrainian hetmans allowed business on the banks of the river. In 1676, the wagon of Ivan Samoilovich "Stetskovi Bugankovi, a inhabitant of the village of Lokotki, allowed on the river Shusttsa, after that village, chasing three in a non-foamy place ... rowing in visipati ... a million zbuduvati." "Stefan Bugai, comrade of hundreds of Voronezh" according to another hetman station wagon (1687) poured a dam and built a mill on the Shostka river. Josip Lazarevich Lazarevich, protopop (1688-1704) of the village of Voronezh received in 1688 a hetman station wagon, which allowed “on his hairy loan bought on the river Shustets, lower village of Lokotok, rowing and borrowing his own hairy pomegranate,” And the centurion of Voronezh (1689-1709) Roman Lazarevich Lazarevich (Lazarenko), probably the brother of the previous one, bought in 1701 from one of the inhabitants of Voronezh, besides a forest, a grove, a flood meadow and haymaking, another “palm clogged on the river on the river. Shostke, for five burner kitchens. ”

In accordance with the decree of the Russian government of 1738 on the construction of a powder factory in one of the suburban regiments, the Little Russian military chancellery decided to build one on the land of ancient Severshchina . Major Postelny took advantage of this, who set up a mill for this purpose “about two sets and about one crush on the Shostka river”.