Pinsk Marshes

• The Pinsk Marshes, also known as the Pripet Marshes, is an enormous region of wetlands along the Pripyat River. The marshes occupy the southern part of Belarus and the northwestern part of Ukraine.
• They stretch from Brest in Belarus to Kiev in Ukraine, where the Pripyat joins the river Dnieper. The Marshes were mentioned by Procopius (500-560 CE) in the ‘Wars of Justinian’. They are noted for being virtually impassable to armies since the Byzantine era, up to WWI and WWII.

Pinsk Marshes