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and 292nd Infantry Divisions had to cut across the marshy areas. They often needed to build tracks with logs, over which they could pull light loads in horse-drawn vehicles.

Proposed drainage in the 1950s

There was a plan to drain the wetlands during 1952, when the area of the marshes was under Soviet administration.

Chernobyl nuclear disaster

In 1986, the region became world-famous because of the Chernobyl disaster;

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