Pinsk, a town of west Russia, stands in the midst of what were formerly vast marshes (in large part drained since 1875), on a branch of the Pripet, 98 miles by rail E. of Brest-Litovsk, manufactures leather, and has a large transit trade. Pop. 32,408, two-thirds being Jews.
Pinsk
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 190
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