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20 lut 2019 · The town of Pripyat or Prypyat was founded in 1970 to serve the nuclear plant specifically as a closed, nuclear city. It only became an official city nine years later. But today, save for the startling emergence of wildlife, Pripyat remains a ghost town.
Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth atomgrad (a type of closed city in the Soviet Union) to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located in the adjacent abandoned Chernobyl. [3]
26 kwi 2022 · The site of this eerie scene was a place called Pripyat, located near the heart of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a circle with a radius of nearly 19 miles (30 kilometers) around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that suffered a catastrophic accident April 26, 1986.
Prypiat is now a ghost town, having fallen victim to the worst nuclear power accident in history. It was evacuated after a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl plant twenty-seven years ago, on April...
28 maj 2019 · Pripyat: Ukraine’s Ghost City Killed By Chernobyl. You can now visit the Ukrainian town of Pripyat, abandoned since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, but it might be a good idea to bring your own...
Chernobyl was chosen as the site of Ukraine's first nuclear power plant in 1972, located 15 kilometres (9 mi) north of the city, which opened in 1977. Chernobyl was evacuated on 5 May 1986, nine days after a catastrophic nuclear disaster at the plant, which was the largest nuclear disaster in history.
1 lip 2021 · A photographer has shared some haunting images of a ghost town which has been left empty for 35 years. The city of Pripyat, in northern Ukraine, was evacuated after the explosion of the...
