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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 ...
Pripyat is one of the world's best-known ghost towns. People fled in such haste that the city looks frozen in time — with nature taking over. Although the area remains abandoned, it's now safe ...
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 ...
The Ferris wheel at Pripyat amusement park in Ukraine, still stands abandoned. Pripyat amusement park, Pripyat – abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster; the park's Ferris wheel, which is currently standing but not operating, [10] serves as a poignant reminder of the massive human effect of the disaster. [11]
Take for example Pripyat, Ukraine, site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Once time and corrosion have taken hold, entire towns are left in ghostly shells of their former selves.
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Novoshepelychi (Ukrainian: Новошепеличі; Russian: Новошепеличи) was a village near Pripyat, Ukraine, south-west of the Pripyat River basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated, and now lies within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The village has been ...
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