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25-514: Located in a wooded area of Polesia (literally woodland), the city is known for its paper factory and a sheet of paper is depicted on the city's coat of arms. The city is located on Irsha river which is a left tributary of Teteriv . Through the city runs an important railroad Kyiv – Korosten and a motor vehicle highway Kyiv- Kovel - Warsaw . The town hosts a seismic monitoring station (designated PS-45) belonging to an international network of nuclear test monitoring stations intended to verify

50-720: A battle in which the Poles defeated the Russians and liberated the town during the Kyiv offensive and Polish–Soviet War . During World War II , Malyn was under German occupation from 29 July 1941 until 12 November 1943. It was administered as a part of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine . On March 3, 1975, the village of Horodyshche of the Ukrainian Village Council and the southwestern part of

75-670: A border area may have a legal definition and delineation, both domestically and due to bilateral agreements. Reasons for legal definition of a border area include enhanced security and special provisions for the residents of border areas to cross the border ( local border traffic ). In China , during the Chinese Civil War , many of the areas controlled by the Chinese Communist Party were called "Border Areas" ( simplified Chinese : 边区 ; traditional Chinese : 邊區 ), because they were in remote districts on

100-780: A wider area adjoining it (up to the Ukrainian border) make up the UNESCO -designated West Polesie Biosphere Reserve , which borders a similar reserve (the Shatskiy Biosphere Reserve ) on the Ukrainian side. There is also a protected area called Pribuzhskoye-Polesie in the Belarusian part of the region. The wooden architecture structures in the region were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on 30 January 2004 in

125-613: Is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the bigger East European Plain , including part of eastern Poland and the Belarus–Ukraine border region . This region should not be confused with parts of Russia also traditionally called "Polesie" . One of the largest forest areas on the continent, Polesia is located in the southwestern part of the Eastern-European Lowland ,

150-489: Is introduced. The border troops carry out tasks of guarding the state border in that zone. In addition, along the USSR state border, on its land or border. A boundary layer (not more than 2 km wide) is established along the banks of rivers, lakes and other reservoirs, where additional restrictions are imposed in accordance with the procedure established by the border regime. The entire strip (including rivers, lakes and islands)

175-722: Is under the exclusive control of the USSR Armed Forces. A logging layer 4–5 m wide can be established along the border. During the Interbellum and post- World War II periods, the border areas were subject to severe ethnic cleansing of nationals of " potentially hostile " ethnicities; see Population transfer in the Soviet Union and Forced settlements in the Soviet Union#Deportations from border territories in 1939–1941 for details. In

200-674: The Chernobyl disaster . Huge areas were polluted by radioactive elements. The most polluted part includes the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the adjacent Polesie State Radioecological Reserve . Some other areas in the region are considered unsuitable for living as well. The Polish part of the region includes the Polesie National Park ( Poleski Park Narodowy ), established 1990, which covers an area of 97.6 square kilometres (37.7 sq mi). This and

225-706: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) treaty. The name of the city is traditionally connected with the Prince of Drevlian Mal who is mentioned in the Russian chronicles, particularly during the 945 uprising of Drevlian against Igor , the Grand Prince of Kyiv. Malyn was mentioned as a possession of nobleman Hryńko Wnuczkiewicz during the rule of Alexander Jagiellon at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. After his death, it passed to

250-706: The Polesian Lowland . On the western side, Polesia originates at the crossing of the Bug River valley in Poland and the Pripyat River valley of Western Ukraine . The westernmost part of the region, located in Poland and around Brest, Belarus , historically also formed part of the historic region of Podlachia , and is also referred to as such. The modern Polish part was not considered part of Polesia by

275-471: The Soviet Union , the regime of the use of land, water, forests, entrails, other arable lands, navigation, fishing, rafting and other works is defined by the border area regime. If necessary, a border zone is established within the administrative unit (city, region, settlement, village) within the territory adjacent to the USSR state border or the coast guard by border troops, where a special border regime

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300-834: The Volyn , Rivne , Zhytomyr , Kyiv and Chernihiv Oblasts ), and partly in Poland ( Lublin ). It is a flatland within the drainage basins of the Western Bug and Prypyat rivers. The two rivers are connected by the Dnieper-Bug Canal , built during the reign of Stanislaus II of Poland , the last king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . Notable tributaries of the Pripyat are the Horyn , Stokhid , Styr , Ptsich , and Yaselda rivers. The largest towns in

325-494: The Community to a depth of 30 kilometers, from the seaward border of the customs territory of the Community to a depth of 50 kilometers. For Schengen States , a regulation for local border traffic at external borders define a border area which may extend to a maximum of 50 kilometres (31 mi) on either side of the border. An exception is made for Kaliningrad Oblast , see " Poland–Russia border " article for details. In

350-528: The Cultural category. There are areas in Russia traditionally called Polesie ( Russian : Полесье ) as well. However there the origin of the term is different: historically it referred to transitional areas from woodless fields to densely wooded territory. Border region The border area is the area immediately adjacent to the border of a country. In addition to the informal definition,

375-786: The Jelec family. Malin was administratively located in the Kijów Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. In the 18th century, it passed to noblewoman Anna Krasicka née Starzechowska, mother of leading Polish Enlightenment poet Ignacy Krasicki , and the Krasickis sold it to Stanisław Kordysz, who erected a new Catholic church in 1780. Following the Second Partition of Poland ,

400-737: The Odesa Diocese of the UOC (MP), located in the city center at 3 Soborna Square, was also destroyed. On May 20, 2022, according to the mayor of Malyn, Oleksandr Sytailo, 3 people were injured and 100 houses were damaged by rocket fire in the town. FC Papirnyk Malyn is a Ukrainian football team based in Malyn. This article about a location in Zhytomyr Oblast is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Polesia Polesia , also called Polissia , Polesie , or Polesye ,

425-571: The Pripyat basin are Pinsk , Stolin , Davyd-Haradok . Huge marshes were reclaimed from the 1960s to the 1980s for farmland . The region is subdivided into several subregions among which are: According to the late 19th-century Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland Polesie was divided into Northern Polesia, itself divided into Upper Polesia or Pinsk Polesia and Lower Polesia or Mazyr Polesia, and Southern Polesia, itself divided into Volhynian Polesia (overlapping northern Volhynia ) and Drevlian Polesia. This region suffered severely from

450-692: The borders of two or more provinces. They are also known by the names of "Border Regions" and "Liberated Areas" in English. Examples include the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region and the neighbouring Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region in northern China. In Germany , within the framework of the European Union Customs Union , the border area ( German : grenznahe Raum ) extends on the German part of the customs border of

475-589: The eastern part forming part of the Byelorussian SSR , within which the Polesia Region was created in 1938. From 1931 to 1944, it was explicitly mentioned as constituent part of the short-lived ( Byzantine Rite ) Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia . Following the 1939 invasion of Poland , most of the region was under Soviet occupation , with the western outskirts under German occupation until 1941, and then

500-466: The entire region, including the pre-war Soviet-controlled part, was under German occupation until 1943–1944. Since the end of World War II, the region has encompassed areas in eastern Poland, southern Belarus, and northwestern Ukraine. Polesia is a marshy region lining the Pripyat River ( Pripyat Marshes ) in Southern Belarus ( Brest , Pinsk , Kalinkavichy , Gomel ), Northern Ukraine (in

525-471: The late 19th-century Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland , which defined the region as roughly a triangle between the cities of Brest in the west, Mogilev in the northeast and Kyiv in the southeast. The swampy areas of central Polesia are known as the Pinsk Marshes (after the major local city of Pinsk ). Large parts of the region were contaminated after the Chernobyl disaster and

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550-648: The people of the Milograd culture , the Neuri . In the late Middle Ages Polesia became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , following it into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569). It was annexed by Russia in the late-18th-century Partitions of Poland . Polesia was largely part of Poland from 1921 to 1939, when the country's largest province, the Polesie Voivodeship , bore that name, with

575-452: The region now includes the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and Polesie State Radioecological Reserve , named after the region. The names Polesia/Polissia/Polesye , etc. may reflect the Slavic root les 'forest', and the Slavic prefix po- 'on, in, along'. Inhabitants of Polesia are called Polishchuks . In ancient times, the areas of today's western and west-central Polesia were inhabited by

600-515: The town was annexed by Russia in 1793. In 1801 it passed to the Morzkowski family, and afterwards to the Radziwiłł family . Malyn is a small homeland of Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay , an Imperial Russian traveler, for whom Malyn served a residence to maternal side of his family. A paper mill and a tannery were founded in 1873 and 1877, respectively. On 27–28 April 1920, it was the site of

625-538: The village of Malynivka of the Malynivka Village Council of the Malyn district were included in the city of Malyn. At least five people were killed in Malyn in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . On February 27, 2022, a Bayraktar drone downed a Russian Buk near Malyn. On March 7, 2022, Russians shelled the town, destroying a two-story building and 3 cars. It is known that one person was killed and 3 others were injured. The Church of St. Michael of

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