Tovstyi Lis

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Abandoned in 1986 due to Chernobyl Disaster.

Public artwork including a statue of Lenin, a pyramid-shaped memorial, and a figural monument slowly being overgrown.

Tovstyi Lis is a village in Ukraine, in the Ivankiv district of the Kyiv region. Until 1986 it was located in the Chornobyl district of Kyiv region (32 km from the former district centre of Chornobyl).
Before the accident, the village was home to 626 people.

In May 1986, the residents of Tovstyi Lis were resettled to the villages of Havronshchyna and Plakhtyanka in Makariv district of Kyiv region due to significant radioactive contamination caused by the Chornobyl accident. In 1999, the village was excluded from the register due to the absence of residents.

The village of Tovstyi Lis was located 43 km from the district center, the city of Chornobyl, and about 7 km from the Tovstyi Lis railway station. This settlement had a long history and was mentioned in documents dating back to 1447. The village had the Holy Resurrection Church, which was built of wood and consecrated in 1760.

In the early 1970s, around 800 people lived in the village. It had a secondary school, a medical and obstetric center, a cultural center, and a railway station (Krasnytsia stop).

Before the Chornobyl disaster, the village had a population of 626 people.

In May 1986, the residents of Tovstyi Lis were relocated to the villages of Havronshchyna and Plakhtyanka in the Makariv district of Kyiv Oblast due to severe radioactive contamination caused by the Chornobyl accident. In 1999, the village was officially removed from records due to the absence of residents.