Pripyat (river)

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
Pripyat River
Map displaying the course of the river, flowing eastward through southern Belarus through the cities of Brest, Pinsk and Mazyr
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.

Pripyat River at Mazyr, Belarus

Tributaries

• Horyn River (659 km; 22,700 km²)
  • Sluch (451 km; 13,800 km²)

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