Pripyat
Pripyat
Прип'ять | |
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| Coordinates: 51°24′17″N 30°03′25″E / 51.40472°N 30.05694°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Kyiv Oblast |
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| Founded | 4 February 1970 |
| City rights | 1979 |
| Abandoned | 1986 |
| Named after | Pripyat River |
| Government | |
| • Administration | State Agency of Ukraine on the Exclusion Zone Management |
| Area | |
• Total | 6.59 km2 (2.54 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 111 m (364 ft) |
| Population (2025) | |
• 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 |
Pripyat, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth atomgrad ('atom city', a type of closed city in the Soviet Union that served the purpose of housing nuclear workers near a plant), catering the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The plant is located north of the abandoned city of Chernobyl, after which it is named. Pripyat was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had ballooned to a population of 49,360 by the time it was evacuated on the afternoon of 27 April 1986, one day after the Chernobyl disaster.
Although it is located in Vyshhorod Raion, the abandoned municipality is administered directly from the capital of Kyiv. Pripyat is 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.