Pinsk
a town of west Russia, stand- he sailed in December, 1499, and discoving in the midst of what were formerly ered Brazil and the river Amazon, three vast marshes (in large part drained months before Cabral took possession of since 1875), on a branch of the Pripet, 98 miles E. of Brest-Litovsk; it manufactures leather, and has a large transit trade. Pop. about 40,000. It was captured in 1915 by the Germans.