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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 ...
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.
The city of Pripyat, which was established in 1970 for workers and families of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, was formerly administratively subordinate to the Chernobyl Raion. In 1980, it was given the status of a city of regional significance, administratively subordinate to the Kyiv Oblast authorities rather than the Chernobyl Raion. [13]
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.
In 1986, the region became world-famous because of the Chernobyl disaster; however, the Pripet Marshes should not be confused with the ghost city of Pripyat; the area within which the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is located. It is approximately 356 km (221 mi) east-southeast of the geographic centre of the Pinsk Marshes area.
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As a former resident of Pripyat, he is an eyewitness and a victim of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. He has devoted many articles, photographs, and video reports to the city of Pripyat and to the Chernobyl catastrophe. He is the editor-in-chief of the internet project "pripyat.com" and the president of the International Public Organization "Center ...
This is introduced as the beginning of their journey to Pripyat, near the ground zero of Chernobyl. Once they reach the outpost outside the exclusion zone, we see that the area surrounding Pripyat is very deserted and dark. Once in the city, we see Surkov's old home, which he explains has been robbed of almost all its belongings due to looters ...