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The Ubort (Russian and Ukrainian: Уборть; Belarusian: Убарць, Ubarts) is a river in the Zhytomyr Oblast (Ukraine) and the Homiel Voblast (Belarus), a right tributary to the Pripyat in the Dnieper river basin.[1] It is 292 kilometres (181 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 5,820 square kilometres (2,250 sq mi).[2]

Ubort
The Ubort River at Yemilchyne, Ukraine
Location
Country	Ukraine, Belarus
Physical characteristics
Source
• coordinates	50°42′36″N 27°53′56″E
Mouth	Pripyat
• coordinates	52°06′05″N 28°27′56″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

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

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 past Yemilchyne and Olevsk, thence across the international border into Belarus near Borovoye[4] (Баравое). It then flows northeast and north past Lelchytsy, and Moiseyevichi, before entering the Pripyat at Pyetrykaw. 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 at 51°24′00″N 027°52′57″E in the Ukraine, and the 58 km Svidovets (Свидовець) with its mouth at 51°42′55″N 028°17′28″E in 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 its drainage basin is 5,820 square kilometres (2,247 sq mi). The average annual flow of water at the mouth of the Ubort is 24.4 Cubic metres per second.

History

The name appears in Latin as Hubort in a 1412 survey document. Some maps in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mark it as the Олевская (Olevskaya) or in Polish Olewsko, as being of the town of Olevsk. The origin of the name Ubort is 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 from Olevsk were taken to the Ubort River, where they were humiliated and tortured; some of them were murdered in the pogrom.[8]

It was contaminated during the Chernobyl disaster.

References

Books

• Khvagina, T. A. (2005). Polesye: from the Bug to the Ubort' (in Belarusian, Russian, and English). Minsk: Vysheysha shkola. ISBN 985-06-1153-7.
• Gerlach, Thomas (2009). Ukraine: Zwischen den Karpaten und dem Schwarzen Meer (Ukraine: Between the Carpathians and the Black Sea) (in German). Berlin: Trescher. ISBN 978-3-89794-152-6.

На других языках

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[de] Ubort

Der Ubort (ukrainisch Уборть; belarussisch Убарць .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}Ubarz) ist ein rechter Nebenfluss des Pripjat. Er entspringt mit seinen Seitenarmen im Flussoberlauf im Hügelland nahe der Ortschaft Symony in der Oblast Schytomyr, um dann in nördlicher Richtung über die Staatsgrenze nach Belarus zu fließen. Hier schwenkt er schließlich in der Homelskaja Woblasz in nordöstliche Richtung, um in den Pripjat zu münden. Mit einer Länge von 292 km entwässert er ein Areal von 5820 km².

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- [en] Ubort

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[ru] Уборть (река)

Уборть (укр. Уборть, белор. Убарць) — правый приток Припяти. Протекает на Украине и в Белоруссии. Длина реки — 292 км, площадь водосборного бассейна — 5820 км². Общее падение реки — 96,3 м. Средний уклон водной поверхности — 0,3 %. Среднегодовой расход воды в районе устья 24,4 м³/с.

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