Prípiat || При́п'ять

Pripyat or Prypiat is a ghost city in northern Ukraine, near the Ukraine–Belarus border.

Named after the nearby Pripyat River, the city was founded on February 4, 1970, as the ninth nuclear city (a type of closed city) in the Soviet Union, to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had grown to a population of 49,360.

by the time it was evacuated on the afternoon of April 27, 1986, the day after the Chernobyl disaster

Is famous for:

The city of pripyat is famous for appearing a lot in movies, in video games in literature for being a ghost town.

Monument

This is the monument to the firemen who died after the explosion.

The monument was erected by the firemen themselves.

After the explosion, firemen raced to the plant within two minutes of hearing the alarm, unknowingly exposing themselves to lethal doses of radiation.

Prípiat in 2019...