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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.
Immediately after the Chernobyl disaster, on April 27, 1986, the 100 villagers were completely evacuated and resettled elsewhere, due to the high level of radioactive contamination. Because of the impossibility of effective decontamination of most buildings, they were destroyed and buried in 1987.
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 ...
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 ...
Following the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, a Zone of Alienation (Ukrainian: Зона відчуження Чорнобильської АЕС, zona vidchuzhennya Chornobyl's'koyi AES), also known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 30 Kilometre Zone, or simply The Zone (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська зона, Chornobyl's'ka zona) was designated by the USSR military after ...
Chernobyl was chosen as the site of Ukraine's first nuclear power plant in 1972, located 15 kilometres (9 mi) north of the city, which opened in 1977. Chernobyl was evacuated on 5 May 1986, nine days after a catastrophic nuclear disaster at the plant, which was the largest nuclear
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.
Dibrova (Ukrainian: Діброва), formerly known as Kabany, Kaganovichi, and Kaganovichi Drugi, is an abandoned settlement and former village in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, part of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It was resettled due to the Chernobyl disaster and deregistered in 1999.