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Ubort
The Ubort (Russian and Ukrainian: Уборть; , ''Ubarć'') is a river in Zhytomyr Oblast (Ukraine) and Gomel Region (Belarus), a right tributary to the Pripyat in the Dnieper river basin. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The Ubort is fed mostly by melting snow (~70%) and peaks during the spring run-off, usually mid-March to early May, and maintains an even, albeit lower, flow during the summer months. It can freeze as early as mid-November or as late as January, and the ice breaks up as early as mid-February or as late as mid-April. Course The Ubort originates in the hills above and south of the village of Andreyevichi in Zhytomyr Oblast. It arises at elevation 207 m., from a series of small creeks flowing westward off of the Simony Hills, elevation 222 m, and northeastward off of the Marynivka Hills, elevation 225 m. The river flows north past Yemilchyne and Olevsk, thence across the international border into Belarus near Borovoye (Баравое). It then flows n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olevsk
Olevsk (, ; ; ) is a city in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. As of January 2022 its population was approximately History Olevsk was first mentioned in 1488. In 1641 Olevsk was granted Magdeburg city rights by Polish King Władysław IV Vasa. Later it became a town in Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire. During World War II on November 15 or 21, 1941, members of Taras Bulba-Borovets' Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army collaborated with the German administration in taking more than 500 Jews from Olevsk to Varvarivka, where they were murdered. On December 25, 2011, the city council of Olevsk renamed the streets of the city that bore the names of Soviet leaders, naming them in honor of prominent figures of the Ukrainian nationalist and patriotic movement. The streets and lanes named after Pavlo Postyshev, Stanislav Kosior, Hryhoriy Petrovsky, Mykhailo Kalinin, and Hryhoriy Kotovsky were renamed. Instead, they were named after Olena Teliha, Oleh Olzhych, He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pripyat (river)
The Pripyat or Prypiat is a river in Eastern Europe. The river, which is approximately long, flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and into Ukraine again, before draining into the Dnieper at Kyiv Reservoir. Name etymology Max Vasmer notes in his etymological dictionary that the historical name of the river mentioned in the earliest East Slavic document, the ''Primary Chronicle'', is ''Pripet (), and cites the opinion of other linguists that the name meant "tributary", comparing with Greek and Latin roots. He also rejects some opinions which were improperly based on the stem ''-pjat'', rather than original . The name may also derive from the local word ''pripech'' used for a river with sandy banks. Geography The Pripyat begins in the Volhynian Upland, between the villages of and in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. 204 km downstream, it crosses the border of Belarus, where it travels 500 km through Polesia, Europe's largest wilderness, within which lie the vast sandy wetlands k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lelchytsy
Lyelchytsy (; ; ) is an urban-type settlement in Gomel Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Lyelchytsy District. As of 2025, it has a population of 12,243. Lyelchytsy is located by the Ubort River, southwest of Gomel. History The city was occupied by German troops in late August 1941. In September 1941 and in early spring 1942, local policemen and German gendarmes murdered Jews of the town in several mass executions. Many hidden Jews were later caught and then shot. Then, the Jewish houses were also plundered. The last remaining Jews were shot in summer 1942, along with Soviet citizens, under the pretext of having links to the partisans. Monuments Monument to soldiers-internationalists who died in Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran bord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of Belarus
This is a list of rivers in Belarus. All rivers measured in Kilometres. Inside of Belarus and the length in total. Longest rivers List of Rivers in Belarus *Dnieper River **Drut River (R) **Sozh River (L) ***Iput River ***Pronya River (Belarus), Pronya ***Besed **Berezina River (R) ***Svislach (Berezina), Svislach ****Niamiha River ***Babrujka River **Pripyat River (R) ***Braginka river, Braginka ***Horyn River ***Styr River ***Ubarts ***Ptsich ***Sluch River (Belarus), Sluch ***Yaselda River ***Stviha *Neman River **Western Berezina ***Disna (Neman River tributary), Disna ***Drisa ***Usa River (Belarus), Usa River **Shchara **Kotra River **Vilija ***Vilnia River ***Narač River **Merkys River ***Ūla River *Western Dvina **Pałata **Kasplya River **Dysna *Bug River **Mukhavets River ***Dachlovka ***Zhabinka ***Trascianica ***Asipaǔka ***Ryta **Lesnaya **Pulva Minor *Drahabuž River *Lovat River *Narew References {{List of rivers of Europe Rivers of Belarus, * List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vysheysha Shkola
Vysheysha shkola () is a state-owned publishing house in Minsk, 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 ..., specialized in publishing academic books. External links website of the publishing house Companies with year of establishment missing Publishing companies of Belarus Mass media in Minsk Publishing companies of the Soviet Union {{Belarus-media-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chernobyl Disaster
On 26 April 1986, the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The response involved more than Chernobyl liquidators, 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18billion Soviet ruble, rubles (about $84.5billion USD in 2025). It remains the worst nuclear disaster and the List of disasters by cost, most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of US$700 billion. The disaster occurred while running a test to simulate cooling the reactor during an accident in blackout conditions. The operators carried out the test despite an accidental drop in reactor power, and due to a design issue, attempting to shut down the reactor in those conditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pogrom
A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of Massacre, massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe late 19th- and early 20th-century Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire, attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement). Retrospectively, similar attacks against Jews which occurred in other times and places were renamed pogroms. Sometimes the word is used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish groups. The characteristics of a pogrom vary widely, depending on the specific incident, at times leading to, or culminating in, massacres. Significant pogroms in the Russian Empire included the Odessa pogroms, Warsaw pogrom (1881), Kishinev pogrom (1903), Kiev pogrom (1905), and Białystok pogrom (1906). After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, several pogroms occurred amidst the power struggles in Eastern Europe, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cubic Metres Per Second
Cubic metre per second or cubic meter per second in American English (symbol m3s−1 or m3/s) is the unit of volumetric flow rate in the International System of Units (SI). It corresponds to the exchange or movement of the volume of a cube with sides of in length (a cubic meter, originally a ''stere'') each second. It is popularly used for water flow, especially in rivers and streams, and fractions for HVAC values measuring air flow. The term ''cumec'' is sometimes used as an acronym for full unit name, with the plural form ''cumecs'' also common in speech. It is commonly used between workers in the measurement of water flow through natural streams and civil works, but rarely used in writing. Data in units of m3s−1 are used along the y-axis or vertical axis of a flow hydrograph, which describes the time variation of discharge of a river (the mean velocity multiplied by cross-sectional area). A moderately sized river discharges in the order of 100 m3s−1. Conversions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, the drainage divide, made up of a succession of elevated features, such as ridges and hills. A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical pattern. Other terms for a drainage basin are catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, water basin, and impluvium. In North America, they are commonly called a watershed, though in other English-speaking places, " watershed" is used only in its original sense, that of the drainage divide line. A drainage basin's boundaries are determined by watershed delineation, a common task in environmental engineering and science. In a closed drainage basin, or endorheic basin, rather than flowing to the ocean, water converges toward the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyetrykaw
Pyetrykaw or Petrikov (; ; ) is a town in Gomel Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Pyetrykaw District. At the 2009 census, its population was 10,591. As of 2025, it has a population of 10,278. Geography Pyetrykaw is located on the left (north) bank of the Pripyat River, west of Mazyr and west of the city of Gomel, the regional capital. History Before 1500, the history of Pyetrykaw is that of the Principality of Turov and Pinsk. Thus it passed under control of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia in the early 13th century, and was devastated in 1240 by the Mongols, and thereafter remained under the titular control of the Golden Horde until it joined the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the early 14th century, just before Poland conquered the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia in 1349. In 1502 and 1521 the area was attacked by Tatars from the newly independent Crimean Khanate. The first written mention of Pyetrykaw goes back to the year 1523, where the community w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yemilchyne
Yemilchyne (, translit. ''Yemil’chyne'', ) is a rural settlement in Zviahel Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Population: History Until 26 January 2024, Yemilchyne was designated urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So .... On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Yemilchyne became a rural settlement. References Rural settlements in Zviahel Raion Novograd-Volynsky Uyezd {{Zhytomyr-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to support national security. Founded in 1996 as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), it changed names in 2003. It is a member of the United States Intelligence Community. NGA headquarters, also known as NGA Campus East or NCE, is located at Fort Belvoir North Area in Springfield, Virginia. At , it is the third-largest government building in the Washington metropolitan area after the Pentagon and the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Ronald Reagan Building. The agency also operates NGA Campus West, or NCW, in St. Louis, Missouri, and support and liaison offices worldwide. NGA also helps respond to natural and manmade disasters, helps with security planning for major events such as the Olympic Games, disseminates maritime safety ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
