The Cogalnic River is a 183 km river in Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

 and south-western Ukraine

Ukraine

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The Cogalnic rises in the hills of Nisporeni District

Raionul Nisporeni

Nisporeni is a district in the west-central part of Moldova, with the administrative center at Nisporeni., its population was 66,800. Most of the people are Moldovans .-History:On 25 April, 1420 is first attested Vărzărești monastery...

 in the Codri region west of the Moldovan capital, Chişinău

Chisinau

Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...

. It flows through the cities of Hînceşti

Hîncesti

Hînceşti is a city in Moldova, also written without diacritics as "Hincesti" or "Hancesti" .Hînceşti is situated on the Cogalnic River, southwest of the Moldovan capital, Chişinău...

, Cimişlia

Cimislia

Cimişlia is a city in the southern part of Moldova, on the banks of the Cogîlnic River. Cimişlia has a population of 12,800 according to a 2006 census. It is the administrative center of Cimişlia District...

 and Basarabeasca

Basarabeasca

Basarabeasca is a city in Moldova. It is the capital of Basarabeasca District.-Geography:The city, formerly an urban-type settlement, is located on the border with Ukraine. It is 94 km to the south of Chişinău, 25 km from Cimislia, and 25 km from Comrat...

, and then into the Budjak

Budjak

Budjak or Budzhak is a historical region in the Odessa Oblast of Ukraine. Lying along the Black Sea between the Danube and Dniester rivers this multiethnic region was the southern part of Bessarabia...

, past Artsyz

Artsyz

Artsyz is a city in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. Population is 16,370 ....

 and into the Prichernomorskoy lowlands of the Odessa Oblast

Odessa Oblast

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 (province) of Ukraine. Together with the Sarata River

Sarata River

Sarata is a river in Ukraine and Moldova, which inflows into the Sasyk Lagoon. The river has origine in the territory of Moldova. Length 120 km. Area of watershed 1 250 km². In summer it is dries. The river has tributaries: Babei, Gealair, Copceac....

 it enters the Sasyk Liman and thence into the Black Sea

Black Sea

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History

Johann Thunmann in his eighteenth century work described it:

In warm months, there is a great shortage of water. Even the largest river in this area, the Kogylnik, then dries, and it is often due to lack of water that the livestock of the Tatars die from thirst. In the autumn, when the rainy season starts, there appear suddenly appear countless streams across the low country. All of the marshes are then covered with puddles. To overcome the water shortages suffered in the summer, one finds very deep wells have been dug everywhere. Among the Tatars, as in the east, digging wells has become an act of religion and honor.