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Pinsk (, ), a town in Belarus , in the Polesia region, travesed by the river Prypiać , at the confluence of the Strumen and Pina rivers. The region is known as the Marsh Of Pinsk . It is a fertile agricultural center. It lies south-west of Minsk . Population 128,300. The city is a small industrial center producing ships sailing the local rivers. HISTORY Pinsk (Pinesk) is first mentioned in 1097 as a town belonging to Sviatopolk , prince of Kyiv . In 1132 it formed part of the Minsk Principality . After the Mongol invasion of 1239 it became the chief town of a separate principality, and continued to be so until the end of the 13th Century . In 1320 it was annexed to the Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ; and in 1569 , after the union of Lithuania with the Crown Of The Polish Kingdom , it was chief town of the province of Brest . During the rebellion of chieftain Bohdan Chmielnicki ( 1640 ), it was captured by Cossacks who carried out a Pogrom against the city's Jewish population; the Poles retook it by assault, killing 24,000 persons and burning 5,000 houses. Eight years later the town was burned by the Russians. Charles XII took it in 1706 , and burned the town with its suburbs. Pinsk fell to Russia in 1793 in the Third Partition Of Poland , became part of Poland in 1920 after the Polish-Soviet War and was incorporated into Soviet Union in 1939 . From 1941 to 1944 it was occupied by Nazi Germany . As of 1991 Pinsk has belonged to the Republic of Belarus . FAMOUS PEOPLE
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