Girlo

Girlo (from Ukrainian: Girlo ) ^[1] - the name of the branches and channels in the deltas of large rivers flowing into the Black and Azov Seas.

In addition to the sleeves themselves, the ends of river estuaries , which continue in the marine part of the delta (in the bay , estuary ), are also called girles .

Girly is also called a strait , channel or generally more or less deep channel , laid by the natural course of the river or by artificial straightening in the delta of the river.

Danube , Don , Dnieper festivals are known, for which the word fest is used as part of a name, a proper name.

Often the word "hyrlo" is mixed up with the word mouth , although the hyrolo and mouth are not at all the same thing.

Already in the “Book of the Big Drawing”, which contains an explanation of the geographical map drawn up in the half of the 16th century, the word “girlo” is often found in the sense of the strait: “And from the mouth of the Cuban river (Kuban), by the sea shore to the sea girla, which a channel from the Sea of ​​Azov to the Black Sea, and up to Kafa 90 versts. ”

In the south of Russia, the word “girlo” as applied to rivers is in common use. In the general, broad sense of the word, the “mouth” and “girlo” are sometimes used indifferently, but in this case they denote a certain, usually indefinite part of the delta, with all the sleeves flowing in it. In particular, these words serve to designate completely different objects.

The Dnieper Girl, thanks to its special names, best show the difference between the words "mouth" and "Girl" and completely determine the latter. The two main branches by which the Dnieper flows into the estuary are the Dnieper itself and Konk’s sleeve. Their immediate continuation in the underwater delta is made up of navigable bowls, of which the northern, serving as a continuation of the Dnieper, is called the Belogrudovskoye and the southern, serving as a continuation of Konka, is called the Zburyevsky.

These last names, which are completely different from the names of the branches of the river, eliminate any misunderstanding and completely solve the question of where the river or its sleeve ends and where the festoon begins.

From this it can be seen that generally the crowns are not in the river, but in the estuary, bay or sea.

So, Don girls are in the Taganrog Bay, the Dnieper - in the Dnieper estuary, the Danube (St. George, Sulinskoe and others) - in the Black Sea.

In 1865, the Girlov Committee was established in Russia to maintain the Don girls in a position convenient for shipping.

In the north of Russia, the word girlo is not used at all as applied to rivers.

In the very north of the East European Plain, the Throat of the White Sea is called “Girlo” by pomors (this word in just such a vowing is quoted in his story “Sealed Glory” by B. V. Shergin).

Other straits of the sea ​​are also sometimes called garrils.