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Pripyat
Прип'ять | |
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Coordinates: 51°24′17″N 30°03′25″E / 51.40472°N 30.05694°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Oblast | Kyiv Oblast |
Raion |
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Founded | 4 February 1970 |
City rights | 1979 |
Government | |
• Administration | State Agency of Ukraine on the Exclusion Zone Management |
Area | |
• Total | 8 km2 (3 sq mi) |
Elevation | 111 m (364 ft) |
Population (2023) | |
• Total | 0 |
(c. 49,000 in 1986) | |
Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
Postal code | None (formerly 01196) |
Area code | +380 4499[2] |
Pripyat (/ˈpriːpjət, ˈprɪp-/ PREE-pyət, PRIP-yət; Russian: Припять, IPA: [ˈprʲipʲɪtʲ] ), also known as Prypiat (Ukrainian: Припʼять, IPA: [ˈprɪpjɐtʲ]), is a virtually abandoned city in northern Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth atomgrad (a type of closed city in the Soviet Union) to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located in the adjacent abandoned Chernobyl.[3] Pripyat was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had grown to a population of 49,360[4] by the time it was evacuated on the afternoon of 27 April 1986, one day after the Chernobyl disaster.[5]
Although it was located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion (now Vyshhorod Raion since the 2020 raion reform), the abandoned municipality now has the status of city of regional significance within the larger Kyiv Oblast, and is administered directly from the capital of Kyiv. Pripyat is supervised by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl exclusion zone. Following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the entire population of Pripyat was moved to the purpose-built city of Slavutych.