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The Irish folk-rock singer Christy Moore included a song called "Farewell to Pripyat" on his album Voyage (1989), the song credited to Tim Dennehy. Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery's first solo album is titled The Ghosts of Pripyat (2014). The Australian rapper Seth Sentry included the two-part song "Pripyat" in his album Strange New Past (2015).
The Pripyat or Prypiat [a] is a river in Eastern Europe. The river, which is approximately 761 km (473 mi) long, [ 1 ] flows east through Ukraine , Belarus , and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper .
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.
A 1552 map by Sebastian Münster showing the Pinsk Marshes (Sarmatica palus) next to Pinsk. The Pinsk Marshes (Belarusian: Пінскія балоты, romanized: Pinskiya baloty), also known as the Pripet Marshes (Belarusian: Прыпяцкія балоты, romanized: Prypiackija baloty), the Polesie Marshes, and the Rokitno Marshes, are a vast natural region of wetlands in Polesia, along ...
The Pripyat Marshes massacres (German: Prypyatsümpfe Säuberung) were a series of mass murders [1] carried out by the military forces of Nazi Germany against Jewish civilians in Belarus and Ukraine, during July–August 1941.
OSM locator map of the swimming pool within the city of Pripyat The swimming pool in 2009. The Azure Swimming Pool (Ukrainian: Басейн Лазурний) is one of the indoor swimming pools in the abandoned city of Pripyat, [1] [2] Ukraine, which was affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Bridge of Death (Pripyat) in Ukraine, a road bridge over a railway line, between the town of Prypiat and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where there were unsubstantiated claims of deaths from radiation during the Chernobyl disaster. The explosion destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor, killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and ...
Markiyan Kamysh's novel A Stroll to the Zone is about illegal tourist trips to Pripyat. In S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl the Avanhard Stadium makes a minor appearance as the player exits Pripyat. The stadium also showed in the documentary television series Life After People (2008) as a part of the story of Pripyat.