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The name Polesie is loosely translated as " woodland".
An inhabitant is called Poleszuk in Polish, Polishchuk in the local Ukrainian dialect, Poleshchuk in Russian, Palyashchuk in Belarusian.
Polesie is a marshy region lining the Pripyat River in Southern Belarus ( Brest, Pinsk, Kalinkavichy , Homel), Northern Ukraine ( Volyn, Povna , ZhytomyrZhytomyr ( Ukrainian ) is the capital of the Zhytomyrs'ka oblast' in Ukraine. It has about 271,200 inhabitants (2004), and occupies an area of 6,500 hectares. Zhytomyr is a major transportation hub. The city lies on a historic route linking Kyiv with the, North of Kyiv, ChernihivChernihiv in Ukrainian) is an ancient city in northern Ukraine. Some common historical spellings of the name are Polish: Czernichow and Russian: Chernigov''. Population 295,500 (2004). Founded as early as 9th century One of major cities of early Ruthenia), and partly in Poland ( LublinLublin (pronounce: Media:Lublin. ogg|['lublin]]]) is the biggest city in eastern Poland and the capital of Lublin Voivodship with a population of 355,954 (2004). History The first permanent settlement on the site of Lublin was located in the present subur) and Russia ( BryanskBryansk is a city in Russia, 379 km South-East from Moscow. It is the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast. The city was founded in 985 as a military settlement on the right bank of Desna River. It was first mentioned in written records in 1146 as Dobr). It is a flatlandFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) is a classic 19th century short story by Edwin Abbott Abbott, still popular among mathematics and computer science students, and considered useful reading for people studying topics such as the concept of othe within the watershedFor a term related to television programmes, see watershed (television). A watershed or water basin is the region of land that drains into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean. Rain that falls anywhere within a given body of wats of the Western Bug and Pripyat rivers. The two rivers are connected by the Dnepr-Bug Canal , built during the reign of Stanislaw August Poniatowski, the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Notable tributaries of the Pripyat are the Horyn ( Goryn ), Stokhod ( Stokhod , Stokhid ), Styr , Ptich ( Ptycz ), Yasielda ( Jasolda ) rivers. The largest towns in the Pripyat basin are Pinsk, Stolin, Davyd-Gorodok . Huge marshes were reclaimed in the 1960s– 80s for farmlands. The reclamation is believed to have harmed the environment along the course of the Pripyat river.
This region suffered severely from the Chernobyl accident. Huge areas were polluted by radioactive elements and are considered unsuitable for living.
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