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Pripyat, [a] also known as Prypiat, [b] is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus.Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth atomgrad ('atom city', a type of closed city in the Soviet Union that served the purpose of housing nuclear workers near a plant) to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...
The Pripyat amusement park is an abandoned amusement park located in Pripyat, Ukraine. It was to have its grand opening on 1 May 1986, in time for the May Day celebrations, [1] [2] but these plans were cancelled on 26 April, when the Chernobyl disaster occurred a few kilometers away. Several sources report that the park was opened for a short ...
Pages in category "Ghost towns in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Although dangerous amounts of radiation are still being emitted to this day, curious explorers and photographers flock to the site to see the ghost town. Town still healing 30 years after the ...
According to Chernobyl disaster liquidators, the radiation levels there are "well below the level across the zone", a fact that president of the Ukrainian Chernobyl Union Yury Andreyev considers miraculous. [35] The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has been accessible to interested parties such as scientists and journalists since the zone was created.
World War II Memorial. Kopachi (Ukrainian: Копачі; Russian: Копачи) is a former village near Chernobyl, Ukraine, just south-west of the Pripyat River Basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated and is now within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; and thus has been abandoned since 1986.
Poliske (Ukrainian: Поліське) or Polesskoye (Russian: Полесское) is an abandoned settlement and former urban-type settlement in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, part of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the Uzh River and was an administrative center of Poliske Raion (district).
Ghost towns in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (14 P) Pages in category "Ghost towns in Ukraine" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.