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 as the ninth atomgrad, catering the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 1 residents
- Description: abandoned city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
- Also known as: “Prypiat” and “Prypiat‘”
- Historically known as: “Pripyat‘”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amusement Park and Polissya.
Amusement Park
Photo: Justin Stahlman, CC BY 2.0.
The Pripyat amusement park is an abandoned amusement park located in Pripyat, Ukraine. It was to have its grand opening on 1 May 1986, in time for the May Day celebrations, but these plans were cancelled on 26 April, when the Chernobyl disaster occurred a few kilometers away.
Polissya
Hotel building
Photo: BKfi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Polissya hotel is one of the tallest buildings in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine. In operation for just over a decade, the Hotel Polissya was used as quarters for Soviet officials and engineers after the Chernobyl disaster in late April 1986.
Avanhard Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Avanhard Stadium is an abandoned football stadium in Pripyat, Ukraine. It was built to become the home ground of FC Stroitel Pripyat. Due to the Chernobyl disaster it was never realized.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yaniv and Novoshepelychi.
Yaniv
Locality
Photo: Kruusamägi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yaniv is an abandoned village in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. It is located south of Pripyat and west of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Novoshepelychi
Locality
Photo: Vertovfan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Novoshepelychi was a village near Pripyat, Ukraine, south-west of the Pripyat River basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated, and now lies within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Novoshepelychi is situated 3 km northwest of Pripyat.
Chystohalivka
Locality
Photo: Vertovfan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chystohalivka is a locality, which is situated 6 km southwest 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″ northLongitude
30.0574° or 30° 3′ 27″ eastPopulation
1Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)Inception
1970Open location code
9G3GC344+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 127835001OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Pripyat” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Pripyat”
- Albanian: “Prypiat”
- Arabic: “برابيت ، أوكرانيا”
- Arabic: “بريبيات”
- Armenian: “Պրիպյատ”
- Azerbaijani: “Pripyat”
- Bashkir: “Припять”
- Basque: “Pripiat”
- Belarusian: “Прып’яць”
- Belarusian: “Прыпяць (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Прыпяць”
- Bengali: “প্রিপিয়াত”
- Bosnian: “Pripjat”
- Bulgarian: “Припят”
- Catalan: “Pripiat”
- Catalan: “Prípiat”
- Catalan: “Pripyat”
- Central Kurdish: “پریپیات”
- Chechen: “Припять (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Припять”
- Chinese: “彼里皮亞芝”
- Chinese: “普里比亞特”
- Chinese: “普里皮亚季”
- Chinese: “普里皮亚特”
- Chinese: “普里皮亞季”
- Chinese: “普里皮亞特”
- Chinese: “普里雅特”
- Crimean Tatar: “Prıpyat şeeri”
- Crimean Tatar: “Prıpyat”
- Croatian: “Pripjat”
- Czech: “Pripěť”
- Czech: “Pripjať”
- Czech: “Prypjať”
- Danish: “Pripiat”
- Danish: “Pripjat” (historical)
- Danish: “Pripyat”
- Danish: “Prypiat”
- Danish: “Prypiatt”
- Danish: “Prypjat”
- Dutch: “Pripjat” (historical)
- Dutch: “Prypjat”
- Eastern Mari: “Припять (ола)”
- Eastern Mari: “Припять”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريبيات”
- Esperanto: “Pripjat”
- Esperanto: “Pripjatj”
- Estonian: “Prõpjat”
- Finnish: “Pripiat”
- Finnish: “Pripjat”
- Finnish: “Pripyat”
- Finnish: “Prypiat”
- Finnish: “Prypjat”
- French: “Pripyat”
- French: “Prypiat”
- French: “Прип’ять”
- French: “Припять”
- French: “Pripiat” (historical)
- Galician: “Pripyat”
- Georgian: “პრიპიატი”
- German: “Pripyat”
- German: “Prypeć”
- German: “Prypjat”
- Greek: “Πρίπγιατ”
- Greek: “Πριπιάτ”
- Greek: “Πρίπιατ”
- Hebrew: “פריפיאט”
- Hindi: “प्रिपियत”
- Hindi: “प्रिपियात”
- Hindi: “प्रीप्यत”
- Hungarian: “Pripjaty”
- Icelandic: “Pripyat”
- Icelandic: “Prypjat”
- Indonesian: “Pripyat, Ukraina”
- Indonesian: “Pripyat”
- Indonesian: “Prypiat”
- Italian: “Pripjat‘”
- Italian: “Pryp’jat‘”
- Italian: “Pryp"jat’”
- Italian: “Prypjat‘”
- Japanese: “プリピャチ”
- Japanese: “プリペット”
- Javanese: “Pripyat”
- Korean: “프리피야트”
- Korean: “프리피야티”
- Latvian: “Pripjata”
- Lithuanian: “Pripetė”
- Macedonian: “Припјат”
- Malay: “Pripyat, Ukraine”
- Malay: “Pripyat”
- Malayalam: “പ്രിപ്യാറ്റ്”
- Mingrelian: “პრიპიატი”
- Mongolian: “Припять”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pripjat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pripyat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Prypjat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Pripjat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prypjat”
- Norwegian: “Pripjat” (historical)
- Norwegian: “Prypjat”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Prípiat”
- Ossetian: “Припять”
- Pampanga: “Prypiat”
- Persian: “پریپیات، اوکراین”
- Persian: “پریپیات”
- Polish: “Miasto Widmo”
- Polish: “Pripyat”
- Polish: “Prypeć”
- Pontic: “Πριπιάτ”
- Portuguese: “Pripyat”
- Portuguese: “Prypyat”
- Romanian: “Prâpiați”
- Romanian: “Prîpeat”
- Romanian: “Pripiat”
- Romanian: “Prîpiat”
- Romanian: “Prypiat”
- Russian: “Pripyat’”
- Russian: “Припять”
- Rusyn: “Припять (мѣсто)”
- Rusyn: “Припять”
- Samogitian: “Prėpetė”
- Scots: “Pripyat”
- Serbian: “Pripjat”
- Serbian: “Прип’ять”
- Serbian: “Припјат”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pripjat (naselje)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pripjat”
- Slovak: “Pripiať”
- Slovak: “Pripjať”
- Slovenian: “Pripjat”
- South Azerbaijani: “پریپیات”
- Spanish: “Pripiat”
- Spanish: “Prípiat”
- Spanish: “Pripyat”
- Spanish: “Pryp’yat”
- Spanish: “Prypiat”
- Spanish: “Prypjat”
- Swedish: “Pripjat” (historical)
- Swedish: “Prypjat”
- Tatar: “Прыпьять”
- Thai: “ปรือปิยัจ”
- Thai: “ปรือเปียต”
- Turkish: “Pripyat”
- Ukrainian: “Pryp”yat’”
- Ukrainian: “Prypiat”
- Ukrainian: “Прип’ять (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Прип’ять”
- Ukrainian: “При́п’ять”
- Ukrainian: “Припять”
- Upper Sorbian: “Pripjat”
- Upper Sorbian: “Prypjat”
- Vietnamese: “Pripyat”
- Vietnamese: “Prypiat”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pripyat”
- Welsh: “Pripyat”
- Wu Chinese: “普里皮亚季”
- Yakut: “Припять”
- Yue Chinese: “普里皮亞芝”
- “Prėpetė”
- “Припять”
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