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Aravichy (; ) is an abandoned village in Khoiniki District, Gomel Region, Belarus.

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Aravichy (; ) is an abandoned village in Khoiniki District, Gomel Region, Belarus.

==History== Founded in the 16th century, in 1959 its population was 923, with 222 families. Following the 1986 nuclear disaster of Chernobyl, it was abandoned and, from 1988, included in the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve; a Belarusian nature reserve that adjoins the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aravičy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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