Mazyr, Belarus which is also known as Mozyr is a province of Belarus situated on the Pripyat River. Placed about 210 km to the east of Pinsk the natural attractions of the place draws tourists here on their Belarus tours all over the world. Mazyr, Belarus is well linked by transportation facilities within itself as well as throughout Belarus.
Mazyr, Belarus is about 100 km northwest of Chernobyland with a total population of 111,770 of which the population of the total urban area including that of Kalinkavi?y is 150,000. Facts about Mazyr will reveal that the place is also an important center of oil refining, food processing, and machine building besides being the center of one of the largest oil refineries in Belarus which pumps approximately about 18 million metric tons of oil every year.
Belarus travel will also inform the tourist that the right bank of the Pripyat River where Mazyr in Belarus is situated is above its left bank to a substantial height of about 80 m. This has been thought to the result of a gradual process of glaciation because of which there has been a disparity in the relative heights. The present location of the Pripyat River is right at the place where there was a glacier earlier. Both the river banks are sandy, and the right bank is cut by the great ravines which were situated in that place.
The city of Mazyr itself as the tourist will notice in his Belarus tours is located on one of these ravines. The streets consequently have developed much like the corresponding streets of a mountain city. Since the city of Mazyr is renowned for its ravines which has influenced the features of other natural topographic attractions one of these ravines have been given the status of a natural reserve. The tourist will also find Ski lifts and other equipments near these ravines, transforming the areas into skiing winter resorts.
Mazyr, Belarus saw a great massacre of its Jewish population in the World War II by the Nazis. It had also suffered from the Chernobyl accident because of its side effects in radio active fallout. The Bernardinian Monastery and Church, the Cistercian Convent of the 18th century are some of the important tourist attractions in Mazyr.
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