River Pripyat: River in Belarus and Ukraine
The Pripyat River or Prypiat River is a river in Eastern Europe.
It is about 710 km (440 mi) long. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again. It drains into the Dnieper.
| Pripyat River | |
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.jpg) Pripyat River | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Ukraine, Belarus |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| - location | Ukraine |
| Mouth | |
| - location | Dnieper |
| Length | 761 km (473 mi) |
| Basin size | 121,000 km2 (47,000 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| - average | 377 m3/s (13,300 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Pina, Yaselda, Tsna, Lan, Sluch, Ptsich, Braginka |
| - right | Turija, Stokhid, Styr, Horyn, Ubort, Zhelon, Slovechna, Uzh |
The Pripyat passes through the zone of alienation around the Chernobyl reactor, site of the nuclear disaster. It is polluted with radionuclides. The amount of caesium-137 in river sediments continues to go up. The city of Prypiat, Ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster.
Tributaries
- Horyn River (659 km; 22,700 km2)
- Sluch (451 km; 13,800 km2)
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