Pripyat

Pripyat,[a] also known as Prypiat,[b] is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus.

[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.

Pripyat is supervised by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl exclusion zone.

The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kyiv, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern that would be too close to the city.

After Chernobyl, this was the second-largest city for accommodating power plant workers and scientists in the Commonwealth of Independent States.

The Zone of Alienation is considered relatively safe to visit, and several Ukrainian companies offer guided tours around the area.

An electric train terminus of Semikhody, built in 1988 and located in front of the nuclear plant, is currently the only operating station near Pripyat connecting it to Slavutych.

Panoramic view of Pripyat in May 2009
View of the Chernobyl power plant including 2003 radioactive level of 0.763 milliroentgens per hour
Pripyat amusement park , as seen from the City Center Gymnasium
Aerial view of Pripyat
The Azure Swimming Pool was still in use by liquidators in 1996, a decade after the Chernobyl incident.
In 2009, over two decades after the Chernobyl incident, the Azure Swimming Pool shows decay after years of disuse.
The external relative gamma dose for a person in the open near the Chernobyl disaster site. The intermediate lived fission products like Cs-137 contribute nearly all of the gamma dose now after a number of decades have passed, see opposite.
The impact of the different isotopes on the radioactive contamination of the air soon after the accident. Drawn using data from the OECD report [1] and the second edition of 'The radiochemical manual'.
Pripyat 2007
City diagram
Neighborhood I
Neighborhood II
Neighborhood III
Neighborhood IV
Neighborhood IVa
Neighborhood V
City Center
Medicare complex
Public buildings complex
Public buildings and educational buildings