Ingulets

Ingulets 

, a city (since 1956) in the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR, on the Ingulets River (tributary of the Dnieper). Railroad station (Ingulets Novyi). Population, 32,200 (1970). It has iron-ore mines, a concentration combine, and a concrete plant. An evening ore-concentration technicum is located in Ingulets.

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Ingulets 

or Malyi Ingul, a river in the Ukrainian SSR, a right tributary of the Dnieper. Length, 549 km; basin area, 13,700 sq km.

It arises and flows for most of its length through the Dnieper uplands, crossing the Black Sea plain in its lower reaches. Melting snow is the major source of its water. The average flow rate measured at the village of Mogilovka is 0.32 cu m per sec. The river freezes over in the second half of December and thaws in late March. A major right tributary is the Visun’ River. Navigation is possible up to a point 109 km from its mouth. The cities of Aleksandriia, Krivoi Rog, Ingulets, and Snigirevka are located along its course. The Ingulets basin is also the site of the Krivoi Rog iron-ore basin.