Ubort River
Encyclopedia
Ubort River is a river in Zhytomyr Oblast
(Ukraine
) and Homiel Voblast
(Belarus
), a right tributary to the Pripyat River
(Dnieper basin). The length of the river is 292 km, the area of its drainage basin
is 5820 km². The Ubort freezes up in November - January and remains icebound until the 2nd half of February - 1st half of April.
Zhytomyr Oblast
Zhytomyr Oblast is an oblast of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Zhytomyr.-History:The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on September 22, 1937....
(Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
) and Homiel Voblast
Homiel Voblast
Homiel Voblast or Gomel Oblast is a province of Belarus with its administrative center being Homyel.Important cities within the voblasts include: Gomel, Mazyr, Zhlobin, Svetlahorsk, Rechytsia, Kalinkavichy, Rahachow, Dobrush...
(Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
), a right tributary to the Pripyat River
Pripyat River
The Pripyat River or Prypiat River is a river in Eastern Europe, approximately long. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper....
(Dnieper basin). The length of the river is 292 km, the area of its drainage basin
Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...
is 5820 km². The Ubort freezes up in November - January and remains icebound until the 2nd half of February - 1st half of April.
Books
- (in Belorussian, Russian and English) T.A.Khvagina (2005) POLESYE from the Bug to the Ubort, Minsk Vysheysha shkolaVysheysha shkolaVysheysha shkola is a state-owned publishing house in Minsk, Belarus, specialized in publishing academic books. It has been in the book market for over 50 years....
, ISBN 985-06-1153-7