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	Pripyat - Encyclopedia.com
		The Pripyat Marshes are a forested, swampy area (c.38,000 sq mi/98,400 sq km) extending along the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest in the west to Mogilev in the northeast and Kiev in the southeast.
		With a dense network of rivers, lakes, and canals, the marshes are largely coextensive with the Polesye lowland.
		It was in Pripyat that residents awoke in the early morning...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Pripyat.html (1086 words)

	Russian Topography
		Its tributaries include the Berezina, the Pripyat, and the Inhulets from the west and the Sozh, the Desna, the Orel, and the Samara from the east.
		The Pripyat Marshes are a forested, swampy area of 38,000sq miles (98,400sq km) extending along the Pripyat River.
		Its tributaries stretch from Brest in the west to Mogilev in the northeast and Kiev in the southeast.
	www.theeasternfront.co.uk /russiantopography.htm (2841 words)

	Chance for Pripyat', Disappearance is threatening the Pripyatsky marshes.
		Disappearance is threatening the Pripyatsky marshes - the last virgin marsh landscape on the European continent.
		The point is that 175.000 hectares of swamped areas near the river Pripyat' are planned to be drined and turned into agricaltural land.
		If all the plans on the drinnage of half of marshed areas are realized, the result of peat mineralization, to atmosphere will be thown almost as much carbonic acid as it is thrown by all motorcars in Germany per year.
	www.belarus.net /ECOLOGY/pripyat1.htm (723 words)

	Amazon.com: "Pripyat Marshes": Key Phrase page
		attention was devoted to an area known in Eastern Europe as Polesia or more widely in the West as the Pripyat Marshes, a vast area of thousands of square kilometers along the drainage area of the Pripyat...
		West Front, which extended from the Gulf of Finland west of Petrograd to the Pripyat Marshes, was, if not in particularly good circumstances, at least quiet.
		hypothetical situation was apparently held in early 1936 at Tukhachevsky's suggestion and took a German- Polish attack north of the Pripyat Marshes toward Moscow as its premise.
	amazon.com /phrase/Pripyat-Marshes (332 words)

	Pripyat Marshes of Ukraine, RGS 1998 Ralph Brown Expedition: report by Dr O.V. Korniushin
		Pripyat Marshes of Ukraine, RGS 1998 Ralph Brown Expedition: report by Dr O.V. Korniushin
		Its invasion of lakes Svityaz, Beloye and Volyanskoye was certainly facilitated by channels connecting these lakes to the lower Pripyat (the species is absent in the upper Prypyat) and/or the Bug.
		It is notable that the molluscs of the channel connecting lakes Volyanskoye and Beloye (Khabaryshche) are different from those of the adjacent section of Pripyat, but are more similar to those of the lower reaches of the Pripyat.
	www.minter.demon.co.uk /brown/results/korniush.htm (2873 words)

	Pripyat - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pripyat
		The Pripyat' is a tributary of the River Dnieper, which it joins 80 km/50 mi above Kiev.
		The Pripyat' marshes, which lie near the river's source in a forested area called Polesye, near Pinsk, were of strategic importance in both World Wars.
		The Pripyat' is navigable for most of its length.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Pripyat (136 words)

	Pinsk Marshes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pinsk Marshes mostly lie within the Polesian Lowland and occupy most of the southern part of Belarus and the north-west of Ukraine.
		The marshes undergo substantial changes in size during the year, with melting snows in springtime and autumn rainfall causing extensive flooding as the river overflows.
		The city of Pripyat was constructed nearby to house the plant's workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pinsk_Marshes (370 words)

	Pripet Marshes - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Located primarily in the basin of the Pripyat’ River, the marshes cover...
		Marsh Marigold, common name for a perennial herb (Buttercup), often erroneously called cowslip.
		Marsh marigolds are native to marshes and wet...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Pripet+Marshes.html (109 words)

	Polesia at AllExperts
		The swamp areas of Polesia are known as the Pripyat Marshes (after the Pripyat River) or Pinsk Marshes (after the major local city of Pinsk).
		Polesia is a marshy region lining the Pripyat River in Southern Belarus (Brest, Pinsk, Kalinkavichy, Homel), Northern Ukraine (in the Volyn, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Kiev, and Chernihiv Oblasts), and partly in Poland (Lublin) and Russia (Bryansk).
		Notable tributaries of the Pripyat are the Horyn (Goryn), Stokhod (Stokhod, Stokhid), Styr, PtyÄ, Jasielda (Jasolda) rivers.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/po/polesia.htm (328 words)

	Pripyat - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Pripyat, river, Belarus and Ukraine, rising in the Polesye (or Pripet Marshes), near Kovel.
		Chernobyl (in Ukrainian, Chornobyl), town, north-central Ukraine, located on the Pripyat River near the border with Belarus, approximately 130 km (80...
		A natural concern is whether it is safe to visit Pripyat and the surrounding area.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Pripyat.html (141 words)

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		The swamp areas of Polesia are known as the Pripyat Marshes (after the Pripyat River) or Pinsk Marshes (after the major local city of Pinsk).
		Huge marshes were reclaimed from the 1960s to '80s for farmland.
		The reclamation is believed to have harmed the environment along the course of the Pripyat.
	portable-apps.subiectiv.com /portable.php?title=Polesia (293 words)

	Belarus
		Belarus is a low-lying plain, with hilly uplands that seldom exceed 300 m (about 1000 ft) in elevation.
		In the south are vast tracts of sparsely inhabited swampland known as the Poles'ye Marshes (Pripyat' Marshes).
		Notable rivers are the Daugava in the north, the Nemunas in the west, and the Dnepr and its tributaries-the Pripyat', Beregina, and Sozh rivers-in the east, central, and southern portions of the country.
	www.euroyonda.com /lodging/country/by.html (266 words)

	Terrain Factors in the Russian Campaign - All World Wars
		Natural obstacles like the Pripyat area which blocks the approaches to central European Russia, and swamp and water barriers like those formed by the Volkhov or the lower course of the Volga are not to be found in central and western Europe.
		The forests and marshes of the Pripyat watershed rise like a bastion to protect the gateway to central European Russia.
		Two strips of marshland adjoin the Pripyat region in the north: a western strip from Molodeczno (northwest of Minsk) through Polotsk to Lake Peypus and an eastern strip from Velizh through Velikiye Luki to Lake Ilmen and Lake Ladoga.
	allworldwars.com /index.php/Terrain_Factors_in_the_Russian_Campaign (19838 words)

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		A land of lakes, forests, swamplands, and peat bogs that drain from the Pripyat marshes.
		The Pripyat marshes and forests of the Polissya absorbed a significant part of the first eruption of radionuclides (Medvedev, 1990).
		North of Chernobyl, near entrance to Pripyat, a tall stand of Scots Pine that looked like 'burnt' pine wood and was referred to in the early reports as the rust colored or 'red forest,' absorbed the highest radioactive fallout: "...pronounced morphological changes were observed in the dose range from 3-10 Gy.
	ces.iisc.ernet.in /hpg/envis/proceed/kaletnik.txt.html (3521 words)

	7 The Chernobyl disasters Its effect on Belarus and Ukraine
		Two miles further on lies the town of Pripyat, one of several "nuclear" communities built in the 1970s for employees of the station, their families, service personnel, and fire crews.
		Nearby also are the Poles'ye (Pripyat Marshes), an area of sparsely inhabited, unproductive agricultural land and sandy podzolic soil that was once considered a natural barrier against invasion of the USSR from the west.
		With a few individual exceptions, his party members on the spot at Pripyat and Chernobyl were confused and frightened, and unable to respond to the emergency.
	www.unu.edu /unupress/unupbooks/uu21le/uu21le0h.htm (4878 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: people/i/irving.david/libel.suit/transcripts/day026.09
		A. No, this would not be exceptional because he was responsible for large resettlements of millions of people the years before, so this was not exceptional for him.
		MR JUSTICE GRAY: It was your reference to the Pripyat Marshes that made me think back to...
		P-84 Marshes in a moment which I think are the same thing, though I am open to correction on that.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/people/i/ftp.py?people/i/irving.david/libel.suit/transcripts/day026.09 (1721 words)

	The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944 (Merriam Press Monograph M211) Excerpt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The greatest single natural barrier in the country is the Pripyat Marshes which lie between White Russia and the western Ukraine and comprise more than 150,000 square miles of densely forested swamps.
		The most extensive portions of the transportation net were north of the Pripyat Marshes, running from Poland and Lithuania through White Russia to Moscow.
		From the southern edges of the Pripyat to the Gulf of Finland all orderly movement is channeled by the terrain into a few narrow corridors where for long stretches it is exposed to easy interdiction.
	www.merriam-press.com /mono_200/m211-ex.htm (3074 words)

	Ockham's Razor:6 February 2005 - A Memoir of Chernobyl
		Approaching the small township of Pripyat, downwind from the disaster, we passed through a belt of pinewoods, sere and withered, the needles distorted as if scorched by unseen flame.
		Just down the concrete roadway stood Pripyat, a concrete town like the set of one of those films noir of the mid-20th century portraying a bleak future industrial age.
		The only sound was the sigh of the wind across the Pripyat marshes, accelerating to a low moan among the squat blocks of flats.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s1295228.htm (2094 words)

	David Gorodok - Section II - a
		The marshes were drained after Belarus became part of the Soviet Union [1946], but prior to that they were a formidable feature of the East European landscape, the only area on the eastern Polish border to afford at least partial protection from intruders.
		The natural landscape mixes forests of coniferous and deciduous growth with marshes, mingles oak groves and lush meadows with swamps.
		In the early 1300s, the Pripyat basin was wrested from the Tatars and incorporated into the empire of Lithuania, Rus and Samogitia, most often referred to as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
	davidhorodok.tripod.com /2a.html (4207 words)

	Extreme Tourist -> Paliessie Extrim
		With a dense network of rivers, lakes, and canals, the marshes are largely coextensive with the Polesia lowland.
		Drainage of the swamps was begun c.1870; the eastern part is now used for pasturage and cultivation.
		Polesia marshes are so huge it is in a Guinness Book as a biggest marsh in a whole world.
	chat.extremetourist.com /index.php?act=ST&f=70&t=143&st=0 (735 words)

	Belarus - Landscape and Climate (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The major rivers are the Dniepr, the Neman, the Dvina, and the Pripyat.
		n the southern part of the country are the Pripyat Marshes.
		Over the years the marshes have been drained to grow flax, potatoes and rye.
	www.cp-pc.ca /english/belarus/landclim.html (378 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		Scientists of the Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus jointly with the republican public organization Protection of birds of Belarus proposed to restore a complex of desolated marshes in Belarus.
		The scientists sent a project of restoration of the Belarusian marshes to the Global Ecological Fund.
		The leadership of the fund showed interest in the project of the Belarusian scientists and as the result on March 25 experts of this organization arrived in Belarus.
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/europe/belarus.html (623 words)

	Pripyat — Infoplease.com
		river, c.440 mi (710 km) long, rising NW of Kovel, NW Ukraine, near the Polish border, and flowing generally E through the Pripyat Marshes, S Belarus, into the Dnieper River in NE Ukraine.
		are a forested, swampy area (c.38,000 sq mi/98,400 sq km) extending along the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest in the west to Mogilev in the northeast and Kiev in the southeast.
		Pinsk Marshes - Pinsk Marshes: Pinsk Marshes: see Pripyat.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0840173.html (264 words)

	Belarus Women - Belarus ladies & girls seeking single men
		Belarus is landlocked, relatively flat, and contains large tracts of marshy land.
		The largest marsh territory is Polesia, which is also amongst the largest marshes in Europe.
		Three major rivers run through the country, the Neman River, the Pripyat River, and the Dnepr River.
	www.lovemall.com /belarus.htm (586 words)

	belarus map and information page
		The extensive Pripyat marshes cover the southern reaches of the country.
		A few areas of rolling hills blend into the lowlands.
		Others of importance include the Dvinar and Pripyat.
	worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/europe/by.htm (359 words)

	Russia / Ukraine
		in the Pripyat Marshes and at the confluence of the Pina and Pripyat rivers, at the eastern end of the Bug-Dneprovskiy canal connecting the Bug and the Pripyat' drainage systems.
		The Poles'ye (or Pripet Marshes), the largest swamp in Europe, begin immediately to the south.
		The city is 166 km (103 mi) east of Brest and 282 km (175 mi) west-northwest of Chernobyl', the site of the worst known nuclear reactor accident.
	www.littlewhitebull.com /oxman1/russia.htm (1447 words)

	belarus map and information page
		The extensive Pripyat marshes cover the southern reaches of the country.
		A few areas of rolling hills blend into the lowlands.
		Others of importance include the Dvinar and Pripyat.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/europe/by.htm (359 words)

	GMT GAMES: East Front Series: AGC to AGS Link: Soviet
		Ground combat units of both Fronts may occupy any hexes within confines of the "agreed upon" Pripyat Marshes regardless of which side of the frontal boundary they occupy.
		If any of these Bdes have entered the AGS area earlier and have moved into the Pripyat Marsh area on Maps D or H, they do not enter now with 5th Army.
		If any other GT 32,33,36 or 38 Soviet 5th Army units have entered the AGS area earlier and have moved into the Pripyat Marsh area on Maps D or H, they do not enter now with 5th Army.
	www.gmtgames.com /bagc/ags2agc_link_soviet.html (1644 words)

	Военная литература : История войн : Stolfi R. H. S. Hitler’s Panzers East: World War II ...
		Soviet forces south of the Pripyat Marshes outnumbered the Germans in men; numbers of major infantry, tank, motorized, and cavalry formations; and tanks, aircraft, and artillery pieces of hke sizes.
		On 17 March 1940, Hitler intruded to the severe detriment of German operations south of the Pripyat Marshes by a dilettante whim unchallenged by OKH and Army Group South.
		Concerned that the strong German 12th Army, scheduled to advance out of Romania into the southern Ukraine, would be held up by the Dniester River, Hitler ordered the German offensive concentrated largely in the restricted gap between the Pripyat Marshes and the Carpathian Mountains.
	militera.lib.ru /h/stolfi/05.html (3774 words)

	Belarus or Byelarus
		The climate is moderate humid continental, with warm summers and cold winters.
		More than one third of the land is covered with peat and other swampy soils, notably in the Pripyat Marshes in the south.
		Chornobyl, abandoned city, N Ukraine, near the Belarus border, on the Pripyat R. Ten miles (16 km) to the north, in the town of Pripyat, is the Chernobyl nuclear power station, site of the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/belarus2.html (1888 words)

	WarChron - September 1915 - Russian Casualties - German Support for Lenin
		On 16 September, on the Western Front, the Russian 10th Army was falling back between Vilna and the Pripyat (Pripet) Marshes.
		On the Western Front, the Russians were being driven back in the Pripyat (Pripet) marshes sector.
		In the Black Sea, a Russian battle squadron, with three battleships, the dreadnought Empress Mariya, two cruisers, and five destroyers shelled the ports of Kozlu, Zonguldak and Eregli on the Turkish coast causing light damage.
	www.warchron.com /mountingRussianCasualties.htm (1353 words)

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