Chernobyl Raion

Chernobyl Raion
Чорнобильський район
Chornobyl Raion
Raion of Kyiv Oblast
1923–1988

Chernobyl Raion on the map of Kyiv Oblast. The exclusion zone is marked as grey.

The former Chernobyl Raion (green) was placed under the Ivankiv Raion (yellow). The yellow dot represents the city of Pripyat, autonomous since 1980
CapitalChernobyl
Area
 • Coordinates51°16′N 30°13′E / 51.267°N 30.217°E / 51.267; 30.217
 
• 1984[1]
2,000 km2 (770 sq mi)
Population 
• 1984[1]
44,000
History 
• Established
1923
• Merged into
Ivankiv Raion
16 November 1988
Political subdivisions1 municipality
23 rural councils
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Chernobyl uezd
Radomysl uezd
Ivankiv Raion
Today part ofVyshhorod Raion

Chernobyl Raion (Russian: Чернобыльский район, romanizedChernobyl'skiy rayon) or Chornobyl Raion (Ukrainian: Чорнобильський район, romanizedChornobylskyi raion) was a raion in the Soviet Union located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was one of 26 administrative raions (districts) of Kyiv Oblast in northern Ukraine. After the Chernobyl disaster, the majority of the raion was contaminated, and many of its populated places were included into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which is an officially designated exclusion area around the site of the disaster.[2]

  1. ^ "Chornobyl Raion". Leksyka–Ukrainian encyclopedias and dictionaries (in Ukrainian). Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  2. ^ Laws of Ukraine. Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decree No. 600-94-п: Про внесення змін і доповнень до постанови Кабінету Міністрів України від 23 липня 1991 р. N 106 (On the making of amendments and additions to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decree dated 23 July 1991 N 106). Adopted on 29 August 1994. (Ukrainian)