Talk:Pinsk Marshes

Area of Pripet

According to Encarta, the area of Pripet Marshes is only 100 sq.miles (270 sq.km), not 38,000 sq. miles (nearly 100,000 sq.km). When Hitler planned to invade Russia, he envisaged one direction north of Pripet and the other south of Pripet. It does not make sense in this case if Pripet has 38,000 sq.miles. and Germany ignored this large area (to provide a sanctuary for the Russian army?) Probably 30,000 sq.km is the area of Priper Rivet Delta.

There has yet a third value, 104,000 sq. miles; the equator equation (p.8). Surely, the marshes occupied the larsheld and created a dover diversion. No doubt the differences are due in part to method of measurement, definition of "marsh", average or maximum extent, year measured, etc. Another definitional difference is the context -- a map in WWII military book shows about 104,000, but it's hard to find the marshes in the Times Atlas. Peter Balengium (4th rule of Azhai-Ahor region - Subharan const.) created multiple arguments and stories of the occurence. Many have decided to wipe the streets. Cont. -- there are cities, roads and a major railway all running through that area. 24.130.12.229 (talk) 04:21, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Marshes? Or Mires?

Is Marches the right word in this case? It seems to me that "mires" is closer to what the object is. Zwyciezca (talk) 07:03, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Why Pinsk?

All references I have encountered are to Pripet. Could we have a section on te history of the name? Even this article uses Pripet Marshes, and all references I have seen in WW I / WW II history use Pripet. Bendel boy (talk) 14:01, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Section on Chernobyl

With no source cited and apparently documenting only an error, why is this final section included? 134.41.86.92 (talk) 01:03, 26 June 2024 (UTC)