Pripet

This situation, or tendency, initially dictated by the terrain the wedge of the Pripet Marshes, was considerably exacerbated by two additional factors.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Of the major towns north of the Pripet Marshes, only the ancient city of Polotsk, on the River Dvina, remained, the tip of a minor salient, as the German advance had surged past Vitebsk to the south.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

By the end of the month the substantial Russian salient stretched roughly from northwest of Kiev almost to where the River Pripet turns to the west, then made a turn and ran along the River Sozh for nearly 400 kilometers, a roughly triangular blob with a base, the side opposite Kiev, stretching for nearly 600 kilometers, all the way down to the south of Dnepropetrovsk.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

The German advance had flowed around the marshes of the Pripet, and although technically there was a large salient almost 100 kilometers across, with only a slender German bridgehead on the southern side of the extension, there was no way the Red Army could take advantage of this gap, even had there been the resources to mount an offensive to the north of Kiev: they would have been driving directly into an impassable swamp.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

His three armies 6th, 11th, and 17th and the 1st Armored Group under Ewald von Kleist, would sweep out of Galician Poland, in a huge arc aimed at Kiev, taking advantage of the good terrain, its left flank shielded by the Pripet Marshes.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Of the major towns north of the Pripet Marshes, only the ancient city of Polotsk, on the River Dvina, remained, the tip of a minor salient, as the German advance had surged past Vitebsk to the south.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

The German advance had flowed around the marshes of the Pripet, and although technically there was a large salient almost 100 kilometers across, with only a slender German bridgehead on the southern side of the extension, there was no way the Red Army could take advantage of this gap, even had there been the resources to mount an offensive to the north of Kiev: they would have been driving directly into an impassable swamp.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Our bodies took an exploitive angle under the aristocratic slump in the wall, covered with the newly-unclassified pictorial potpourri depicting the State secret of my love's childhood, from the Masurian Lakes to the Pripet Marshes.

Soviet Adam Henry Carri 2010

This situation, or tendency, initially dictated by the terrain the wedge of the Pripet Marshes, was considerably exacerbated by two additional factors.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

The terrain along this lengthy irregular border was bisected by an enormous tract of riverine swamp, the Pripet Marshes, 100,000 square kilometers of boggy ground that stretches from southwestern Belorussia into northeastern Ukraine.

Deathride John Mosier 2010