Pripyat (river)
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Prypjat Pripetz, Прип'ять, Прыпяць (Prypjaz) Припять (Pripjat) |
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 The Pripyat near Mosyr |
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Brest Region , Gomel Region ( Belarus ), Oblast Volyn , Kiev Oblast ( Ukraine ) |
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| River system | Dnepr | |
| Drain over | Dnepr → Black Sea | |
| source | in Volyn Oblast, 51 ° 30 ′ 25 ″ N , 24 ° 4 ′ 45 ″ E |
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| muzzle | in the Kiev reservoir Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 31 ″ N , 30 ° 29 ′ 27 ″ E 51 ° 9 ′ 31 ″ N , 30 ° 29 ′ 27 ″ E
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| length | 775 km | |
| Catchment area | 114,300 km² | |
| Discharge at the Mazyr gauge |
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370 m³ / s |
| Discharge at the gauge near the mouth |
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460 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Pina , Jasselda , Bobryk , Zna , Lan , Slutsch , Pzitsch , Ipa , Brahinka | |
| Right tributaries | Horyn , Stochid , Styr , Turija , Ubort , Usch , Slavechna , Stwyha | |
| Big cities | Pinsk , Mazyr | |
| Small towns | Naroulja , Chornobyl | |
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 In its headwaters in the Volyn Oblast , two rivers, the Turija and the Stochid , flow into the Prypiat on the right. Both rivers have their sources in the Volyn Oblast |
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 In the estuary the Pripyat flows into the Dnieper |
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 After the river leaves Volyn Oblast, it crosses the border into Belarus |
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 Pripyat (Прип'ять) in the catchment area of the Dnieper |
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The Pripyat ( Ukrainian Прип'ять , Belarusian Прыпяць Prypjaz , Russian Припять Pripyat , Polish Prypeć , lithuanian Pripetė , outdated German Pripetz ) is the largest tributary of the Dnieper in Belarus and in Ukraine ( Eastern Europe ).
course
The 775 km long river has its source in the extreme northwest of Ukraine near the Polish border. From this hilly country it flows eastwards and after about 200 km it crosses the border with Belarus . There it flows through the Palessa lowlands and with it the Pripyat Marshes, which it transforms into a wilderness of lakes, marshes and forest islands as the snow melts. The last 50 km the Pripyat flows back into the Ukraine and flows a few kilometers below the Chernobyl nuclear power plant into the Kiev reservoir and thus into the Dnepr and ultimately into the Black Sea .
In the 1930s, a large part of the Palessje Marshes was drained by draining the water over the Pripyat. The largest city on the Pripyat is Pinsk in Belarus , where the Dnieper-Bug Canal flows into the Pina River. The cities of Prypiat and Chornobyl in the Pripyat catchment area were affected by the Chernobyl disaster in the nuclear power plant of the same name.
Web links
literature
- Diana Siebert: Techniques of rule in the swamp and their ranges. Landscape interventions and social engineering in Polesia from 1914 to 1941 , Wiesbaden, 2019. ISBN 978-3-447-11229-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Article Prypjat in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Alexander von Humboldt: Central Asia. BoD - Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 978-3-943-85002-4 , p. 67 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Pierer-1857/A/Russisches+Reich+%5B1%5D?hl=pripetz