Ubort
| Ubort | |
|---|---|
 The Ubort River atYemilchyne,Ukraine | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Ukraine,Belarus |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • coordinates | 50°42′36″N27°53′56″E/ 50.71000°N 27.89889°E |
| Mouth | Pripyat |
• coordinates | 52°06′05″N28°27′56″E/ 52.10139°N 28.46556°E |
| Length | 292 km (181 mi) |
| Basin size | 5,820 km2(2,250 sq mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Pripyat→Dnieper→Dnieper–Bug estuary→Black Sea |
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TheUbort(Russian and Ukrainian: Уборть;Belarusian:Убарць,Ubarć) is a river inZhytomyr Oblast(Ukraine) andGomel Region(Belarus), a right tributary to thePripyatin theDnieperriver basin.[1]It is 292 kilometres (181 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 5,820 square kilometres (2,250 sq mi).[2]
The Ubort is fed mostly by melting snow (~70%) and peaks during the spring run-off, usually mid-March to early May, and maintains an even, albeit lower, flow during the summer months. It can freeze as early as mid-November or as late as January, and the ice breaks up as early as mid-February or as late as mid-April.
Course
[edit]The Ubort originates in the hills above and south of the village of Andreyevichi[3]in Zhytomyr Oblast. It arises at elevation 207 m., from a series of small creeks flowing westward off of the Simony Hills, elevation 222 m, and northeastward off of the Marynivka Hills, elevation 225 m. The river flows north pastYemilchyneandOlevsk,thence across the international border into Belarus near Borovoye[4](Баравое). It then flows northeast and north pastLelchytsy,and Moiseyevichi, before entering the Pripyat atPyetrykaw.The mouth of the river is at an elevation of 120 meters.
The principle tributaries[5]of the Ubort are the 67 km Perga (Перга) with its mouth at51°24′00″N027°52′57″E/ 51.40000°N 27.88250°Ein Ukraine, and the 58 km Svidovets (Свидовець) with its mouth at51°42′55″N028°17′28″E/ 51.71528°N 28.29111°Ein Belarus.[6]
The river has a low incline dropping only 87 meters over its 292 kilometer length. The result is a meandering river with many swamps and oxbox lakes. The area of itsdrainage basinis 5,820 square kilometres (2,247 sq mi). The average annual flow of water at the mouth of the Ubort is 24.4Cubic metres per second.
History
[edit]The name appears in Latin asHubortin a 1412 survey document. Some maps in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mark it as theОлевская(Olevskaya) or in PolishOlewsko,as being of the town of Olevsk. The origin of the nameUbortis obscure, but seems to be related to the use of boards (ubort) in making artificial hollow trees for honey bees.[7]
In July 1941, between 30 and 40 Jews fromOlevskwere taken to the Ubort River, where they were humiliated and tortured; some of them were murdered in thepogrom.[8]
It was contaminated during theChernobyl disaster.
References
[edit]- ^"Uborć"(in Polish).inSłownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego(Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland) volume XII, page 734, (1892)
- ^Уборть,Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- ^Andreyevichi (Approved)atGEOnet Names Server,United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^Baravoye (Approved)atGEOnet Names Server,United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^Other tributaries are the Бересток, Мала Глумча, Зольня, Телина, Угля, Мудрич, Божанка, and Силець.
- ^"Świdówka (Svidovets of the Dnieper)"(in Polish).inSłownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego(Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland) volume XI, page 649, (1890)
- ^ZHUCHKEVICH, Vadim Andreevich (1974).Краткий топонимический словарь Белоруссии(in Russian).OCLC749097432.
- ^McBride, Jared (July 20, 2016)."Ukrainian Holocaust Perpetrators Are Being Honored in Place of Their Victims".The Tablet.RetrievedJuly 22,2016.
Books
[edit]- Khvagina, T. A. (2005).Polesye: from the Bug to the Ubort'(in Belarusian, Russian, and English). Minsk:Vysheysha shkola.ISBN985-06-1153-7.
- Gerlach, Thomas (2009).Ukraine: Zwischen den Karpaten und dem Schwarzen Meer (Ukraine: Between the Carpathians and the Black Sea)(in German). Berlin: Trescher.ISBN978-3-89794-152-6.
