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Pripyat River

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The Pripyat River or Prypiat River (Ukrainian: Прип’ять, pronounced [ˈprɪpjɑtʲ]; Belarusian: Прыпяць, Prypiać, [ˈprɨpʲatsʲ]; Polish: Prypeć, [ˈprɨpɛtɕ]; Russian: Припять, [ˈprʲipʲɪtʲ]) is a river in Eastern Europe, approximately 761 km (473 mi) long. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper.The Pripyat passes through an exclusion zone established around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It is polluted with radionuclides. The concentration of caesium-137 in river sediments continues to increase.[citation needed] The city of Prypiat, Ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster.Pripyat has catchment area of 121,000 km2 (47,000 sq mi), 50,900 km2 (19,700 sq mi) of which are in Belarus. 495 km (308 mi) of the whole river length lies within territory of Belarus.