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    The Pinsk Marshes (Belarusian: Пінскія балоты, romanized: Pinskiya baloty), also known as the Pripet Marshes (Belarusian: Прыпяцкія балоты, romanized: Prypiackija...
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    of the Pina River and the Pripyat River. The region was known as the Pinsk Marshes and is southwest of Minsk. As of 2023, it has a population of 124,613...
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    The Pripyat Marshes massacres (German: Prypyatsümpfe Säuberung) were a series of mass murders carried out by the military forces of Nazi Germany against...
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    Notable swamp regions are Pinsk Marshes and Olmany swamps in Polesia and Yelnya Swamp in Vitebsk region. Swamps, marshes, mires, bogs, and fens are all...
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  • of Belarus Pinsk Raion, an administrative subdivision of Belarus Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinsk, a diocese at Pinsk Pinsk Marshes Pinsk Flotilla, see...
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    known as the Pinsk Flotilla, was the inland branch of the Polish Navy operating on the Vistula river and in the area of the Pinsk Marshes (Dnieper–Bug...
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  • Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Pripyat may also refer to: Pinsk Marshes, or Pripyat Marshes Pripyat (river), a river in Belarus and Ukraine notably running...
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    swampy areas of central Polesia are known as the Pinsk Marshes (after the major local city of Pinsk). Large parts of the region were contaminated after...
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    largest wilderness, within which lie the vast sandy wetlands known as the Pinsk marshes, a dense network of swamps, bogs, rivers and rivulets within a forested...
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  • Poesche proposed that the Aryans originated in the vast Rokitno, or Pinsk Marshes, then in the Russian Empire, now covering much of the southern part...
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    Theodore Odrach (category People from Pinsk District)
    of the Pinsk Marshes." The Pinsk Marshes are mostly in southern Belarus. It is one of the largest wetlands in Europe. Odrach's love of the Marsh is depicted...
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    home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pinsk Marshes, one of the largest wetlands in Europe. The East Slavs gradually settled...
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    expect reinforcements from other Russian units operating south of the Pinsk Marshes in the Ukraine, as well as experienced troops that could be pulled back...
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    Jewish Museum of Switzerland. A 1552 map showing the Pinsk Marshes (Sarmatica palus) next to Pinsk. Miles Baynton-Williams. "MapForum Issue 10". Mapforum...
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    including elk, wild boar, red deer, European badger, and Eurasian lynx. Pinsk Marshes "Pripyatsky National Park". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved...
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    the forest lands of the north as well as the swampy terrain of the Pinsk Marshes, which are in the area of responsibility (AOR) of the brigade. The brigade...
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    the Polish First Army) deployed on the front's left wing south of the Pinsk Marshes, struck and shattered the defenses of Army Group North Ukraine 4th Panzer...
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    withdrew to the South towards the Pinsk Marshes in the area of Dywin. The headquarters of GO "Polesie" was relocated from Pińsk to Lubieszów, at present Lubeshiv...
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    Kiev until late June 1944, fighting in the southern regions of the Pinsk Marshes, and around Lutsk, Shepetovka, Tarnopol, and Kovel in western Galicia...
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    Russian plan was the poorly defended southern flank, secured only by the Pinsk Marshes and the weak Mazyr (Mozyrska) Group. That unit consisted of the 57th...
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    Otto Schrader (1883, 1890). Theodor Poesche had proposed the nearby Pinsk Marshes. In his standard work about PIE and to a greater extent in a later abbreviated...
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  • Regiment member who was convicted for the killing of 5,200 Jews at the Pinsk Marshes and sentenced to four years in prison in 1964. Otto Wolnek Born 5 June...
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  • Zhitomir and was asked to cover the northern flank of the 6th Army in the Pinsk Marshes. The brigade next operated behind the XVII Army Corps and on 23 August...
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    was located in the long westward extension of its Front south of the Pinsk Marshes in the vicinity of Kovel. On June 10 General Borisov left the division...
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  • 2nd SS Cavalry put on trial for mass killings of 5,200 Jews at the Pinsk Marshes. He was found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison. However...
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    around the area of the Shatsky Lakes, and runs eastward across the Pinsk Marshes. Further along, it stretches parallel to the south of the Pripyat River...
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    Lithuanian-Belarusian Front, operating in the area of Polesie and the Pinsk Marshes. During the Battle of Warsaw in 1920 his unit was attached to the 3rd...
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  • killed in action in World War II. During the Polish-Bolshevik War the Pinsk Marshes in modern Belarus proved to be almost impassable to troops of both sides...
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  • finally disbanded. 1 July until 1 December --- static combat in the Pinsk Marshes 2 until 17 December --- Ceasefire From 17 December --- Armistice Until...
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  • extensive wooded swamps behind Army Group Centre in White Russia, in the Pinsk Marshes, and on both banks of the Dnieper and Desna River as early as the winter...
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