The Sluch or Northern Sluch (; ; ; ) is a river in

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

. Rising in Minsk Oblast, it flows past the cities of Salihorsk and Slutsk, finally emptying into the

Pripyat Pripyat, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby river, Pripyat (river), Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth ''atomgrad'' ...

. It is long, and has a

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

of . The (also spelled Morocz or Morach), a right tributary of the Sluch, originates in the . Under Article 2 of the Treaty of Riga (1921), it defined part of the border between Poland and the Soviet Union.

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Rivers of Brest region Rivers of Gomel region Rivers of Minsk region Rivers of Belarus {{Belarus-river-stub

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