Pripyat River

The Pripyat at Mosyr

In its headwaters in the Volyn oblast two rivers, the Turija and Stochid open on the right side in the Pripyat. Both rivers have their sources in the Volyn oblast

At the mouth of the Pripyat flows into the Dnieper

After the flow has left the Volyn oblast, he crossed the border to Belarus

Pripyat ( Припять ) in the catchment area of the Dnieper

The Prypiat (Ukrainian Прип'ять, Belarusian Прыпяць or Prypjaz, Russian Припять or Pripyat, Polish Prypeć, Lithuanian Pripetė, German Pripyat ) is the largest tributary of the Dnieper River in Belarus and in Ukraine ( Eastern Europe).

Course

The 775 km long river has its source in the north- western Ukraine, near the Polish border. From this hill country, it flows to the east and crossed by about 200 km, the border with Belarus. There, it flows through the Palessjeniederung and thus the Pripjatsümpfe which he transformed during snowmelt in a wilderness of lakes, swamps and forest islands. The last 50 km of the Pripyat flows again in Ukraine and flows a few kilometers below the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl in Kiev reservoir and thus into the Dnieper. ( The third longest river in Europe with 2200 km drains the majority of eastern Ukraine and flows into the Black Sea. )

In the 1930s, a large part of Palessjesümpfe was drained by the water was discharged through the Pripyat. The largest city on the Pripyat is the Belarus Pinsk, where the Dnieper-Bug Canal opens on the river Pina. The lying in the catchment area of ​​the Pripyat and Chernobyl Prypjats cities were affected by the Chernobyl disaster in the same nuclear power plant.