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Panoramic view of Pripyat in May 2009 View of the Chernobyl power plant including 2003 radioactive level of 0.763 milliroentgens per hour. Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as the Soviet Union deemed nuclear power stations safer than other types of power plants.
OSM locator map of the palace within the city of Pripyat. The Palace of Culture Energetik (Ukrainian: Палац культури «Енергетик», romanized: Palats kultury “Enerhetyk”; Russian: Дворец культуры Энергетик) is an abandoned palace of culture located in the town of Pripyat, at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.
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.
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 ...
The village, deregistered on April 1, 2003, is included in the "10 Km Zone" of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. De jure, it belongs to Pripyat, which didn't lose its status of "city of regional significance", but is de facto part of Vyshhorod Raion.
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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]