Pripyat
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.
- Type: Town
- Description: abandoned city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
- Also known as: “Byen Pripjat”, “Miasto Widmo”, “Pripěť”, “Prîpiat”, “Pripjat‘”, “Pripjatj”, “Prıpyat şeeri”, “Pryp’yat”, “Prypiat”, “Prypiat‘”, “Prypiatt”, “Πρίπγιατ”, “При́п’ять”, “Прип’ять (місто)”, “Прыпяць (горад)”, “برابيت ، أوكرانيا”, “پریپیات، اوکراین”, “प्रिपियत”, “प्रिपियात”, “ปรือเปียต”, “프리피야트”, “プリペット”, “普里皮亞特”, and “普里雅特”
- Historically known as: “Pripyat‘”
Places of Interest
Highlights: City Park and Polissya.
City Park
Park
Polissya
Hotel building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yaniv and Novoshepelychi.
Novoshepelychi
Locality
Kosharivka
Locality
Kosharivka, also known as Kosharovka, is an abandoned… Kosharivka is situated 5 km northwest of Pripyat.
Pripyat
- Categories: lost city, posyolok, urban-type settlement in Ukraine, city in Ukraine, and locality
- Location: Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.40597° or 51° 24′ 22″ north
Longitude
30.0574° or 30° 3′ 27″ east
Elevation
114 metres (374 feet)
Established
1970
Open location code
9G3GC344+9X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Pripyat” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Pripyat”
- Albanian: “Prypiat”
- Arabic: “بريبيات”
- Armenian: “Պրիպյատ”
- Azerbaijani: “Pripyat”
- Bashkir: “Припять”
- Basque: “Pripiat”
- Belarusian: “Прып’яць”
- Belarusian: “Прыпяць”
- Bengali: “প্রিপিয়াত”
- Bosnian: “Pripjat”
- Bulgarian: “Припят”
- Catalan: “Prípiat”
- Central Kurdish: “پریپیات”
- Chechen: “Припять (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Припять”
- Chinese: “普里比亞特”
- Chinese: “普里皮亚季”
- Chinese: “普里皮亚特”
- Chinese: “普里皮亞季”
- Crimean Tatar: “Prıpyat”
- Croatian: “Pripjat”
- Czech: “Pripjať”
- Czech: “Prypjať”
- Danish: “Pripjat” (historical)
- Danish: “Prypiat”
- Danish: “Prypjat”
- Dutch: “Pripjat” (historical)
- Dutch: “Prypjat”
- Eastern Mari: “Припять (ола)”
- Eastern Mari: “Припять”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريبيات”
- Esperanto: “Pripjat”
- Estonian: “Prõpjat”
- Finnish: “Prypjat”
- French: “Pripyat”
- French: “Prypiat”
- French: “Pripiat” (historical)
- Galician: “Pripyat”
- Georgian: “პრიპიატი”
- German: “Prypjat”
- Greek: “Πριπιάτ”
- Greek: “Πρίπιατ”
- Hausa: “Pripyat”
- Hebrew: “פריפיאט”
- Hindi: “प्रीप्यत”
- Hungarian: “Pripjaty”
- Icelandic: “Pripyat”
- Icelandic: “Prypjat”
- Indonesian: “Pripyat, Ukraina”
- Indonesian: “Pripyat”
- Interlingua: “Prypjat”
- Italian: “Pryp’jat‘”
- Italian: “Pryp"jat’”
- Italian: “Prypjat‘”
- Japanese: “プリピャチ”
- Javanese: “Pripyat”
- Korean: “프리피야티”
- Latvian: “Pripjata”
- Lithuanian: “Pripetė”
- Macedonian: “Припјат”
- Malay: “Pripyat, Ukraine”
- Malay: “Pripyat”
- Malayalam: “പ്രിപ്യാറ്റ്”
- Mingrelian: “პრიპიატი”
- Mongolian: “Припять”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pripjat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prypjat”
- Norwegian: “Pripjat” (historical)
- Norwegian: “Prypjat”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Prípiat”
- Ossetian: “Припять”
- Pampanga: “Prypiat”
- Persian: “پریپیات”
- Polish: “Prypeć”
- Pontic: “Πριπιάτ”
- Portuguese: “Pripyat”
- Portuguese: “Prypyat”
- Romanian: “Prâpiați”
- Romanian: “Prîpeat”
- Russian: “Pripyat’”
- Russian: “Припять”
- Rusyn: “Припять (мѣсто)”
- Rusyn: “Припять”
- Samogitian: “Prėpetė”
- Scots: “Pripyat”
- Serbian: “Pripjat”
- Serbian: “Припјат”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pripjat (naselje)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pripjat”
- Slovak: “Pripiať”
- Slovak: “Pripjať”
- Slovenian: “Pripjat”
- South Azerbaijani: “پریپیات”
- Spanish: “Prípiat”
- Swedish: “Pripjat” (historical)
- Swedish: “Prypjat”
- Tatar: “Прыпьять”
- Thai: “ปรือปิยัจ”
- Turkish: “Pripyat”
- Ukrainian: “Pryp”yat’”
- Ukrainian: “Prypiat”
- Ukrainian: “Прип’ять”
- Ukrainian: “Припять”
- Upper Sorbian: “Prypjat”
- Urdu: “پریپیات”
- Vietnamese: “Pripyat”
- Vietnamese: “Prypiat”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pripyat”
- Welsh: “Pripyat”
- Wu Chinese: “普里皮亚季”
- Yakut: “Припять”
- Yue Chinese: “彼里皮亞芝”
- Yue Chinese: “普里皮亞芝”
- “Припять”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Microdistrict 3A and City Centre (Pryp’iat‘).
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Post & Telecommunications Office and City Administration.
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