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Pripyat River
Mazyr-Prypiac.jpg
Origin Ukraine
Mouth Dnieper
Basin countries Ukraine, Belarus
Length 710 km (440 mi)
Source elevation  
Avg. discharge 377 m3/sec;
Basin area  
Left tributaries Pina, Yaselda, Tsna, Lan, Sluch, Ptsich, Braginka
Right tributaries Horyn, Stokhid, Styr, Turija, Ubort, Zhelon, Slovechna, Uzh

The Pripyat River or Prypiat River (Ukrainian: Прип’ять, pronounced [ˈprɪpjɑtʲ]; Belarusian: Прыпяць, Prypiać, [ˈprɨpʲatsʲ]; Polish: Prypeć, [ˈprɨpɛtɕ]; Russian: Припять, [ˈprʲipʲɪtʲ]) is a river in Eastern Europe, approximately 710 km (440 mi) long. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper.

The Pripyat passes through the Zone of alienation around the Chernobyl reactor, site of the nuclear disaster. It is polluted with radionuclides. The concentration of caesium-137 in river sediments continues to increase.[citation needed] The city of Prypiat, Ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster.

Pripyat River at Mazyr, Belarus

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Name etymology [edit]

Map displaying the passage of the river through southern Belarus through the cities of Mazyr, Pinsk and Brest.

At least three etymologies have been proposed for the name:-

  • In Slavic languages, the component "pri" means "near", and the component "pyat" means "5". This river has a confluence with five other rivers.[citation needed]
  • It might derive from the local word pripech used for a river with sandy banks.[1]
  • From a Western-Baltic name Preipente "the river at (till) the spurs"[citation needed], the Pripyat river being very shallow in the area inhabited by Western Balts.

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Room, Adam (1997). Placenames of the World. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. 

External links [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Prypyat River

Books [edit]

  • (in Russian, English and Polish) Ye.N.Meshechko, A.A.Gorbatsky (2005) Belarusian Polesye: Tourist Transeuropean Water Mains, Minsk, Four Quarters,
  • (in Belorussian, Russian and English) T.A.Khvagina (2005) POLESYE from the Bug to the Ubort, Minsk Vysheysha shkola, ISBN 985-06-1153-7.
Tributaries1
Map of the drainage basin of the Dnieper
Reservoirs
Hydroelectric
stations
1 Italics indicate left tributaries

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