Pripyat (river)
river in Belarus and Ukraine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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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 |
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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.