TY - JOUR N2 - The purpose of the research is to establish the total number of ponds in Ukraine and to analyse the territorial distribu-tion in the administrative areas, as well as in the river basin districts, as the main hydrographic units of water management. Cadastral data of the State Agency of Water Resources of Ukraine regional offices as of 2019 was used in the research (as to Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions we applied the data as of 2014). According the researches there are 50,793 ponds in Ukraine with a total water table area of 2,92899 ha and the volume of 3,969.4 mln m3 of water in 2019. The quantitative distribution of ponds across Ukraine is unequal. Most of them are concentrated in the central part of the country (10.5% of the total number of ponds in the country are in Vinnytsia region). Least of them are in Luhansk region (0.7%). Almost half of the ponds are located in the Dnieper River Basin (48.5%). The lowest quantity of ponds is in the Black Sea Basin (1.2%). The regulation of river basins districts (the rivers of the Sea of Azov, Crimea and Black Sea Basins) reaches 0.71–0.77. As of 2019, 28% of the ponds are rented out. In order to identify the real status of the ponds (both quantitative and qualitative), their recreational role, the environmental impact and the regulation of the hydrographic network in Ukraine, it is necessary to increase the attention to ponds monitoring. L1 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/117288/PDF/Khilchevskyi%20et%20al%20653.pdf L2 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/117288 PY - 2020 IS - No 46 EP - 145 DO - 10.24425/jwld.2020.134206 KW - pond KW - river basin district KW - river regulation KW - Ukraine A1 - Khilchevskyi, Valentyn A1 - Grebin, Vasyl A1 - Zabokrytska, Myroslava A1 - Zhovnir, Viktoria A1 - Bolbot, Hanna A1 - Plichko, Liudmyla PB - Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Technology and Life Sciences - National Research Institute DA - 2020.09.30 T1 - Hydrographic characteristic of ponds distribution in Ukraine – Basin and regional features SP - 140 UR - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/117288 T2 - Journal of Water and Land Development ER -