The Old Country

The Dnieper–Bug Canal flows east from Brest in southwestern Belarus, just over the border from Poland and less than 50 km north of Ukraine, through Kobryn, to The Pina (river). In Pinsk, The Pina runs into the Prypiat (river). The Prypiat starts at the northwestern corner of Ukraine, crosses north over the border into Belarus near Pinsk, flows east across Belarus, crosses south back into Ukraine near (the city of) Pripyat, past Chernobyl, into the Dnieper (river) at the northern end of the Kiev Reservoir. (Kiev sits at the southern end of the reservoir.)

The Pinsk Marshes (also called the Pripet Marshes) is a wetlands region over 100,000 square miles in size. The region runs along the Prypiat (river) and its tributaries extending to Brest, Mogilev, and Kiev. The city of Pripyat is 221 miles east-southeast of the center of the Pinsk Marshes.

Pripiac, Pripiat, Prypiat.

Kiev Reservoir – formed 1960 – 1966. Other names: Kyiv Cistern, Kyiv Sea, Kiewer Meer.

Chernobyl – Chronobyl.

	Town	District	Province	Country
Before WWI (c. 1900):	Glusha	Kovel	Volhynia	Russian Empire
Between the wars (c. 1930):	Wielka Hłusza	Kamień Koszyrski	Polesie	Poland
After WWII (c. 1950):	Velikaya Glusha			Soviet Union
Today (c. 2000):	Velyka Hlusha			Ukraine

	Town	District	Province	Country
Before WWI (c. 1900):	Kobrin	Kobrin	Grodno	Russian Empire
Between the wars (c. 1930):	Kobryń	Kobryń	Polesie	Poland
After WWII (c. 1950):	Kobrin			Soviet Union
Today (c. 2000):	Kobryn			Belarus

	Town	District	Province	Country
Before WWI (c. 1900):	Divin	Kobrin	Grodno	Russian Empire
Between the wars (c. 1930):	Dywin	Kobryń	Polesie	Poland
After WWII (c. 1950):	Divin			Soviet Union
Today (c. 2000):	Divin			Belarus

	Town	District	Province	Country
Before WWI (c. 1900):	Chernobyl	Radomysl	Kiev	Russian Empire
Between the wars (c. 1930):	Chernobyl	Kiev	Ukraine SSR	Soviet Union
After WWII (c. 1950):	Chernobyl’			Soviet Union
Today (c. 2000):	Chornobyl’			Ukraine

Pskov Oblast – on the Western border of Russia in 2020.