Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (de facto) (1986–present)
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
[1]
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: При́пять, IPA:[ˈprʲipʲɪtʲ]ⓘ), also known as Prypiat (Ukrainian: При́пʼять, IPA:[ˈprɪpjɐtʲ]), is an 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 town in the Soviet Union) to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located in the adjacent ghost city of 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 also 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.
^"Elevation of Pripyat, Scotland Elevation Map, Topography, Contour". Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
^"City Phone Codes". Archived from the original on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
^Pripyat: Short Introduction Archived 11 July 2012 at archive.today
^"Chernobyl and Eastern Europe: My Journey to Chernobyl 6". Chernobylee.com. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
^"Pripyat – City of Ghosts". chernobylwel.com. Archived from the original on 17 February 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
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