Desna

Desna, a river of Russia, rising in the province of Smolensk, and flowing south-eastward to Briansk, and then south-westward till it falls into the Dnieper, almost opposite Kiev. It has a course of 550 miles, navigable nearly throughout, and is the channel of a large trade ; its low banks are frequently inundated in spring. Its chief affluents are the Seim and the Snov.