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Workers of the National reserve "Khortitsa" taken out from the bottom of the Dnieper old boat, which age of about five hundred years. Experts suggest that such vessels Dnieper water was cut off our ancestors in the times of Kievan Rus. But a more exact date will be determined after conducting radiogennogo analysis. The finding was discovered senior researcher of the reserve Valery Nefyodov in 2011 in line with the Old Dnieper river in two kilometers from the island Baida. "In June of this year we carried out a more detailed investigation and found that it dugout boat - boat-odnodnevki made of solid wood of a large oak. The image of such boats can be seen in the engravings of the XVI-XVII centuries," said Valery. Length odnodnevki - about eight meters, width - up to one meter. According to historians, it could accommodate up to eight people.