Chornobyl

Ukraine / Kyyivska / Chornobyl /
 city, ghost town
Chornobyl is a city in the restricted Chornobyl Exclusion Zone situated in northern Kyiv Oblast (region) of Ukraine near the border with Belarus. The city had been the administrative center of the Chornobyl Raion (district) since 1932.

The basis and existence of the city of Chornobyl is eventful history. The city was on one of the important communicative ways of the Middle Ages, on a crossroads of different cultures and religions. In the territory of the Chornobyl area, a type of culture formed in ancient times, which still attracts the views of ethnographers.

The Liberation War of the Ukrainian people occurred between 1648-1654 and Chornobyl lands were not spared. As a result, Chornobyl repeatedly changed hands. In those years, a Kyiv rebel army regiment under the command of Bohdan Khmelnytsky A. Zhdanovich visited Chornobyl, but after one month, the city was taken by a Polish-Lithuanian army by Radzwill. When the flames of the Right Ukraine rebel movement erupted, Chornobyl was protected by the rebels twice, in 1747 and 1751. In response, the punitive detachment of a Polish gentry, headed by Matskevich, passed by fire and sword, almost across the terrain along the rivers Teterev and Pripyat.

Passes to the Chornobyl: www.chernobyl-tour.com/permit.html
More information on web-site - www.chornobyl.in.ua/chornobyl.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chernobyl
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl
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Coordinates:   51°16'34"N   30°13'24"E

Comments

  • It is with sad irony that Pripyat, one of the newest cities in the USSR and Chernobyl, a village that has sat on a bluff of the Pripyat River for nearly 1000 years, are uninhabitable. The town is now mainly used by scientists and zone administration.
  • At least the plant wasn't built closer to Kiev, like originally intended... but even so, there is amazing irony in that this region is where what we know as Russia was born.
  • radiation low enough to allow people to live there. the city is not dead as you might think. about 3000 people live there
  • wow it is?
  • About 500.
  • You kidding?
  • This city is only populated for workers that work on the plant. *mainly so the sarcouphogus doesn't fall* Other then that it's just wild dogs and empty apartments.
  • HA is correct. The city basically is uninhabited except for a small population and wild dogs. Each person who lives there is at risk of radiation, hopefully they know that. The population is build up of workers, scientists, and residents-most of them old or homeless everywhere else except here, or can't accept leaving their life behind-then thats about it. The sarcophogus is also a good point. Inside the sarcophogus is HIGHLY toxic radiation. If it were to break, fall, or open in any way more radiation would spill forth. This radiation is thought to be worse than the stuff that came out at first. Thank You for reading this. P.S.: Remember the helicoptor crew that died pouring cement into the sarcophogus. They hit a crane nearby resulting in a fatal fall in a fiery blaze. If it weren't for their efforts in sealing the reactor more fallout would likely have come out.
  • can visit here?
  • Yes,you can!
  • man oh man!!! call of duty 4 gives an awesome view through the city. strangely, the heli graveyard consists only of MI 26 choppers, no other Soviet gunships visible. maybe because these hulks took long to take off and in a hurry, they left these monsters here...
  • Would you people stfu about CoD4, damn, I wish that game never came out, now whenever I look up info about Pripyat, all I see are these comments about STALKER and CoD...
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