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29-563: Narodytchi is located in the historic region of Polesia . Narodytchi was first mentioned in historical records in 1545. According to the census of 1897, the total population is 4576 including 2054 Jewish inhabitants. It attained the status of an urban-type settlement in 1958. The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 had an extremely negative impact on all spheres of life in Narodychi. According to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated July 23, 1991 Narodichi

58-635: A location in Zhytomyr Oblast is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Polesia Polesia , also called Polissia , Polesie , or Polesye , is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the bigger East European Plain , including part of eastern Poland and the Belarus–Ukraine border region . This region should not be confused with parts of Russia also traditionally called "Polesie" . One of

87-402: A significant number of species that are globally threatened with extinction: Ferruginous duck ( Aythya nyroca ), White-tailed eagle ( Haliaeetus albicilla ) (just 2–3 pairs have been observed), Greater spotted eagle ( Aquila clanga ) (4–6 pairs), Corn crake ( Crex crex ), Great snipe ( Gallinago media ). The presence of so many birds of national and international significance underscores

116-740: A wider area adjoining it (up to the Ukrainian border) make up the UNESCO -designated West Polesie Biosphere Reserve , which borders a similar reserve (the Shatskiy Biosphere Reserve ) on the Ukrainian side. There is also a protected area called Pribuzhskoye-Polesie in the Belarusian part of the region. The wooden architecture structures in the region were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on 30 January 2004 in

145-605: Is in Ukraine . The Pinsk Marshes constitute one of the largest wetland areas in Europe. The Pinsk Marshes mostly lie within the Polesian Lowland , hence Polesie Marshes (Woodland Marshes), and occupy most of the southern part of Belarus and the north-west of Ukraine . They cover roughly 269,400 square kilometres (104,000 sq mi) surrounding the sandy lowlands of the dense network of rivers and rivulets forming on both sides of

174-650: The Chernobyl disaster . Huge areas were polluted by radioactive elements. The most polluted part includes the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the adjacent Polesie State Radioecological Reserve . Some other areas in the region are considered unsuitable for living as well. The Polish part of the region includes the Polesie National Park ( Poleski Park Narodowy ), established 1990, which covers an area of 97.6 square kilometres (37.7 sq mi). This and

203-517: The Eastern Front . The marshes divided the central and southern theatres of operation during World War II , and they served as a hideout for both Soviet and Polish partisans . At one stage during the war, the German administration planned to drain the marshes, ' cleanse ' them of their 'degenerate' inhabitants and repopulate the area with German colonists. Konrad Meyer was the leader in command of

232-571: The Pinsk Marshes (after the major local city of Pinsk ). Large parts of the region were contaminated after the Chernobyl disaster and the region now includes the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and Polesie State Radioecological Reserve , named after the region. The names Polesia/Polissia/Polesye , etc. may reflect the Slavic root les 'forest', and the Slavic prefix po- 'on, in, along'. Inhabitants of Polesia are called Polishchuks . In ancient times,

261-728: The Pripet Marshes ( Belarusian : Прыпяцкія балоты , romanized :  Prypiackija baloty ), the Polesie Marshes , and the Rokitno Marshes , are a vast natural region of wetlands in Polesia , along the forested basin of the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest to the west, Mogilev in the northeast, and Kyiv to the southeast. Most of the region is in Belarus , and part

290-549: The Red Book of Belarus  [ be ] . For the Pinsk swamps' typical alternation of open sedge-reed spaces with almost impenetrable shrub thickets . During the spring flood the swamps are almost completely covered with water, so the local population often has to cross through them in boats. On dry "islands" there are areas of deciduous or pine forests . The Pinsk swamps are home to thousands of birds from different biotopes of

319-600: The Third Army Corps of the Imperial Russian Army poured in before the Austro-Hungarian Second Army 's transfer from Serbia was complete. The Russians soon captured the valuable railhead at Lemberg (now Lviv ), then in the far east of Austria-Hungary (now part of the western Ukraine ), as a result. Throughout the rest of the war, the wetlands remained one of the principal geographic obstacles of

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348-856: The Volyn , Rivne , Zhytomyr , Kyiv and Chernihiv Oblasts ), and partly in Poland ( Lublin ). It is a flatland within the drainage basins of the Western Bug and Prypyat rivers. The two rivers are connected by the Dnieper-Bug Canal , built during the reign of Stanislaus II of Poland , the last king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . Notable tributaries of the Pripyat are the Horyn , Stokhid , Styr , Ptsich , and Yaselda rivers. The largest towns in

377-562: The 'Pripet plan'. Hitler scuttled the project late in 1941, as he believed that it might entail Dust Bowl conditions. In 1942, after an uprising, approximately 1,000 Jews escaped from the Łachwa Ghetto , of whom about 600 were able to take refuge in the Pinsk Marshes. Known as Pripjet-Sümpfe by the Germans, the wetlands were dreaded by the Wehrmacht troops. During the German invasion of

406-511: The Cultural category. There are areas in Russia traditionally called Polesie ( Russian : Полесье ) as well. However there the origin of the term is different: historically it referred to transitional areas from woodless fields to densely wooded territory. Pinsk Marshes The Pinsk Marshes ( Belarusian : Пінскія балоты , romanized :  Pinskiya baloty ), also known as

435-511: The Earth (Europe, Asia, Africa, Mediterranean), some of which come to nest here during migrations, and also swamps are a wintering area for many species of migratory birds nesting in parts of Northern Europe, such as Scandinavia , Finland , the Baltic states and Russia. Of the 246 species of birds which has been observed on this territory, 66 species are listed in the Red Book of Belarus . The park nestles

464-628: The Pripyat River, one of the main tributaries of the Dnieper . Dense woods are interspersed with numerous marshes , moors , ponds and streams extending 480 kilometres (300 mi) west to east and 225 kilometres (140 mi) north to south. The marshes undergo substantial changes in size during the year, with melting snows in springtime and autumn rainfall causing extensive flooding as the river overflows. The Pinsk swamps are home to 827 species of vascular plants , of which 18 are listed as endangered in

493-621: The Pripyat basin are Pinsk , Stolin , Davyd-Haradok . Huge marshes were reclaimed from the 1960s to the 1980s for farmland . The region is subdivided into several subregions among which are: According to the late 19th-century Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland Polesie was divided into Northern Polesia, itself divided into Upper Polesia or Pinsk Polesia and Lower Polesia or Mazyr Polesia, and Southern Polesia, itself divided into Volhynian Polesia (overlapping northern Volhynia ) and Drevlian Polesia. This region suffered severely from

522-516: The Soviet Union , the Third Reich armies skirted the wetlands, passing through the north or south of it. However, after the debacle of the Eastern Front in 1944, many retreating units such as the 7th , 35th , 134th and 292nd Infantry Divisions had to cut across the marshy areas. They often needed to build tracks with logs, over which they could pull light loads in horse-drawn vehicles. There

551-554: The areas of today's western and west-central Polesia were inhabited by the people of the Milograd culture , the Neuri . In the late Middle Ages Polesia became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , following it into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569). It was annexed by Russia in the late-18th-century Partitions of Poland . Polesia was largely part of Poland from 1921 to 1939, when

580-602: The country's largest province, the Polesie Voivodeship , bore that name, with the eastern part forming part of the Byelorussian SSR , within which the Polesia Region was created in 1938. From 1931 to 1944, it was explicitly mentioned as constituent part of the short-lived ( Byzantine Rite ) Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia . Following the 1939 invasion of Poland , most of

609-520: The eastern part of the wetlands were started in 1872 and by the late 19th century drainage of the marshes recovered 1.5 million hectares of wetlands for use as pasture and farmland. At the start of World War I , the marshes separated the Austro-Hungarian Fourth Army from the XII corps; the few roads that traversed the region were narrow and largely unimproved. That left a wide gap, and

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638-399: The historic region of Podlachia , and is also referred to as such. The modern Polish part was not considered part of Polesia by the late 19th-century Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland , which defined the region as roughly a triangle between the cities of Brest in the west, Mogilev in the northeast and Kyiv in the southeast. The swampy areas of central Polesia are known as

667-441: The importance of this territory for the conservation of biodiversity of Polesie , Belarus and Europe as a whole. Historically, for most of the year, the marshes were virtually impassable to major military forces, which influenced strategic planning of all military operations in the region. Like most other wetlands in Europe, the Pinsk Marshes were once seen as an unhealthy area and a focus of sickness. Land reclamation projects of

696-574: The largest forest areas on the continent, Polesia is located in the southwestern part of the Eastern-European Lowland , the Polesian Lowland . On the western side, Polesia originates at the crossing of the Bug River valley in Poland and the Pripyat River valley of Western Ukraine . The westernmost part of the region, located in Poland and around Brest, Belarus , historically also formed part of

725-649: The northern side of the Uzh River , 107 km northeast of Zhytomyr and 134 km northwest of Kyiv . Narodychi contains several industrial companies, including a bakery, a plant for the production of technical tapes (CP "tape") and a joint Bulgarian-Ukrainian producer of sewing accessories Ltd. ("TWI TKF"), although agriculture is practiced by most of the people, with extensive fields in the town and suburbs. The town has gymnasium, kindergarten, children's art house and central regional hospital. [REDACTED] Media related to Narodychi at Wikimedia Commons This article about

754-572: The region was under Soviet occupation , with the western outskirts under German occupation until 1941, and then the entire region, including the pre-war Soviet-controlled part, was under German occupation until 1943–1944. Since the end of World War II, the region has encompassed areas in eastern Poland, southern Belarus, and northwestern Ukraine. Polesia is a marshy region lining the Pripyat River ( Pripyat Marshes ) in Southern Belarus ( Brest , Pinsk , Kalinkavichy , Gomel ), Northern Ukraine (in

783-466: The town however are gradually being established. Russian troops occupied parts of the Narodychi settlement hromada  [ be ; uk ] from the 24 February Russian invasion of Ukraine to 4 April 2022. Until 26 January 2024, Narodychi was designated urban-type settlement . On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Narodychi became a rural settlement. It lies on

812-462: Was a plan to drain the wetlands during 1952, when the area of the marshes was under Soviet administration. In 1986, the region became world-famous because of the Chernobyl disaster ; however, the Pripet Marshes should not be confused with the ghost city of Pripyat ; the area within which the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is located. It is approximately 356 km (221 mi) east-southeast of

841-422: Was evacuated and was one of the worst hit areas by the radiation, affecting some 93,000 people in the Narodychi town and surrounding raion , 20,000 of which were children. This led to the cessation of all industrial enterprises and one of two secondary schools were closed. On the streets of Narodichi are many abandoned houses and dilapidated buildings of educational and medical institutions, etc. Vital functions of

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