after the retreat pripetskoe polesie glacier was a huge water basin filled with melted glacial waters, which was later called the pripyat sea, and during the middle ages, numerous swamps of polesie were designated as... some of which have survived to this day. the history of the formation of the pripyat national park began in the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, when it was proposed to create a protected area in polesie, taking as a basis the largest almanac swamp massif in europe. in june 1969, organized pripe. state landscape-hydrological reserve, which in 1996 was transformed into the pripyat national park. in 1995 , the experimental forest hunting farm lyaskovichi appeared at the reserve, in 1998 the first museum of nature in belarus was opened in the park. the territorial national park is located within the belarusian polesia, in the interfluve of the pripyat, stviga and ubort rivers. administratively, the park is located on the territory of the zhitkovichi, lelchesky and petrikov districts of the gomel region, with administrative center in the agro-town of lyaskov