Abandoned houses in Pripyat, Chernobyl. Terrible and empty streets
Abandoned houses in Pripyat, Chernobyl very interesting place. The city of Pripyat is a ghost town. People do not live here. They left the city 31 years ago.
Pripyat (Ukrainian Pripyat) is an abandoned city in the Kiev region of Ukraine.
The city is located on the bank of the Pripyat River, 2 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, not far from the border with the Republic of Belarus. The distance to Kiev is 94 km.
Pripyat
Why is Pripyat abandoned?
Pripyat became abandoned due to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Chernobyl disaster, the Chernobyl accident, the most commonly used terms in the media are the Chernobyl disaster or Chernobyl – the destruction of the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) on April 26, 1986. The destruction was explosive, the reactor was completely destroyed, and a large number of radioactive substances were emitted into the environment.
The accident is regarded as the largest in its kind in the history of nuclear energy, both in terms of the estimated number of people killed and affected by its consequences, and economic damage. During the first three months after the accident, 31 people died; the long-term consequences of radiation exposure, revealed over the next 15 years, caused the death of 60 to 80 people. 134 people suffered radiation sickness of one degree or another. More than 115 thousand people from the 30-kilometer zone were evacuated.
Where is the abandoned city of Pripyat, Chernobyl?
The abandoned city of Pripyat, located near the railway station Yanov on the Chernigov-Ovruch section, the pier of river navigation on the Pripyat river, the roads have turned the city of Pripyat into a convenient junction of the Polesie transport highways.
What happened in Pripyat 31 years ago?
The population of Pripyat was evacuated on April 27, 1986 because of the Chernobyl accident. A new satellite town of Slavutich, 50 km from the nuclear power plant, was built to accommodate the personnel of the Chernobyl NPP. Now Pripyat is in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. In administrative terms, the urban area is part of the Ivankov district of the Kiev region.
After the accident, work was done to decontaminate the city’s territory, which led to a significant reduction in the radiation background. Now in Pripyat regularly organize excursions
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