Locally, Vitebsk’s river is usually referred to merely as the Dvina, but the region actually has two rivers of the same name. It is therefore useful to distinguish between the Zapadnaya Dvina (Western Dvina), which flows through Vitebsk to the Baltic, and the Severnaya Dvina (Northern Dvina) which drains north into the Arctic Ocean.
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