Pripyat River

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Pripyat River
Origin Ukraine
Mouth Dnieper
Basin countries Ukraine, Belarus
Length 710 km (441 mi)
Source elevation  
Avg. discharge  
Basin area  

The Pripyat River (Ukrainian: Прип’ять, IPA: ['prɨpjatʲ]; Belarusian: Прыпяць, Prypiać, IPA: ['prɨpʲatsʲ]; Polish: Prypeć) is a river in Eastern Europe, of approximately 710 km (441 mi.) length. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper.

The Pripyat passes through the thirty-kilometer zone around the Chernobyl reactor, where the nuclear disaster happened. Therefore it transported and still transports radionuclides downstream. The concentration of caesium-137 is still increasing in dredges and has not been reduced in the river sediments.

The city of Prypiat, Ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster.

Pripyat River
Pripyat River

The name Pripyat is derived from Western-Baltic name Preipente "the river at (till) the spurs", what witnesses the Pripyat river being very shallow in the area inhabited by Western Balts.

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