Pripyat

Pripyat, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in , Ukraine, located near the border with . Named after the nearby river , it was founded on 4 February 1970.
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: abandoned city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
  • Also known as: “Prypiat” and “Prypiat‘”
  • Historically known as: “Pripyat‘”

Places of Interest

Highlights include City Park and Polissya.

Park
Photo: Justin Stahlman, CC BY 2.0.
The Pripyat amusement park is an abandoned amusement park located in Pripyat, . 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.

Hotel building
Photo: BKfi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The hotel is one of the tallest buildings in the abandoned city of Pripyat, . In operation for just over a decade, the Hotel was used as quarters for Soviet officials and engineers after the Chernobyl disaster in late April 1986.

Stadium
Photo: Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.

Locality
Photo: Kruusamägi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an abandoned village in , , northern . It is located south of Pripyat and west of the .

Locality
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was a village near Pripyat, , 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. is situated 3 km northwest of Pripyat.

Locality
, also known as Kosharovka, is an abandoned settlement and former in , , northern . The village was evacuated following the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. is situated 5 km northwest of Pripyat.

Pripyat

Latitude
51.40597° or 51° 24′ 22″ north
Longitude
30.0574° or 30° 3′ 27″ east
Elevation
114 metres (374 feet)
Inception
1970
Open location code
9G3GC344+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 127835001
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
696269
Wiki­data ID
Q170456
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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: “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”
  • Hausa: “Pripyat”
  • Hebrew: “פריפיאט”
  • Hindi: “प्रिपियत”
  • Hindi: “प्रिपियात”
  • Hindi: “प्रीप्यत”
  • Hungarian: “Pripjaty”
  • Icelandic: “Pripyat”
  • Icelandic: “Prypjat”
  • Indonesian: “Pripyat, Ukraina”
  • Indonesian: “Pripyat”
  • Indonesian: “Prypiat”
  • Interlingua: “Prypjat”
  • 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”
  • Urdu: “پریپیات”
  • 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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Localities in the Area

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