Pripyat

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Pripyat, also known as Prypiat, 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 housed nuclear workers. Residents of Pripyat worked at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, north of the abandoned city of Chernobyl, after which the power plant was named. Pripyat was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had ballooned to a population of 49,360 by the time it was evacuated on the afternoon

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Pripyat is an abandoned city in Ukraine that was built in 1970 as a Soviet "atom city" to house workers at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The city was evacuated in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and remains significant as a symbol of the catastrophic accident and its human consequences.

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Settlement.official_name: Prypiat
Settlement.native_name: Прип'ять
Settlement.native_name_lang: uk
Settlement.settlement_type: City and ghost town
Settlement.image_skyline: Pripyat montage.jpg
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Settlement.image_caption: Clockwise from top-left:
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Settlement.subdivision_type1: Oblast
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Settlement.subdivision_name1: Kyiv Oblast
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Settlement.established_title: Founded

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Прип’ять
Population: 21711
Area: 8
Elevation: 127
Official website: pripyat.com
Image: Pripyat montage.jpg
Dialing code: 4499
Licence plate code: КI / 10

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native label: Прип’ять
Commons category: Pripyat
postal code: 255614
inception: 1970-00-00
time of earliest written record: 1970-00-00
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described at URL: www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/pripjat

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Although it is located in Vyshhorod Raion, the abandoned municipality 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.