 In 1934, Russian émigré Dimitry Tyapkin projected and constructed a hydroelectric power plant next to the waterfalls which produced electricity for the town.The White Drin first flows to the east, next to the spa of Banja e Pejës, and the villages of Banje, Trbuhovac and Zlakućan, where it receives the Istočka river from the left and turns to the south.The rest of the course is through the very fertile and densely populated central section of Kosovo(Podrima region), but oddly, there is not even one large settlement on the river itself, despite many smaller villages on the river.