Pripet Marshes
Americanplural noun
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The Red command, it said, was massing troops from the Black Sea to the Pripet Marshes for a new all-out push, coordinated with the Allied invasion of the west.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the pre-1939 map, Sarny lay deep within Poland's Pripet Marshes, 35 miles beyond the Russian frontier.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the treacherous Pripet Marshes, other Rokossovsky forces skirted the bogs along road and rail embankments, captured Luninets and attacked Pinsk.
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Between the Pripet Marshes and Leningrad, the Red Army smashed into the enemy in a new offensive, moved 19 miles on a 50-mile front in five days.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the same time Von Mackensen's troops were following the retreating Russians into the Pripet Marshes.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
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