City Park
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.Photo: Justin Stahlman, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: amusement park closed down after Chernobyl disaster
- Also known as: “Pripyat amusement park”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Avanhard Stadium and Polissya.
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. Avanhard Stadium is situated 340 metres northwest of City Park.
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. Polissya is situated 120 metres south of City Park.
Yaniv railway station (former)
Railway station
Photo: Kruusamägi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yaniv railway station, also named Yanov station, is an abandoned Ukrainian station located in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Sometimes referred to as Pripyat station, it lies in the village of Yaniv, south of the city of Pripyat, and is part of the Chernihiv–Ovruch railway. Yaniv railway station (former) is situated 1½ km south of City Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pripyat and Yaniv.
Pripyat
Town
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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, a type of closed city in the Soviet Union that housed nuclear workers.
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 City Park.
City Park
- Categories: amusement park and recreation area
- Location: Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.40815° or 51° 24′ 29″ northLongitude
30.05813° or 30° 3′ 29″ eastOpen location code
9G3GC355+77OpenStreetMap ID
way 279247069OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata ID
Q4345340
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“City Park” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مدينة ملاهي بريبيات”
- Armenian: “Պրիպյատի զվարճանքի պուրակ”
- Azerbaijani: “Əyləncə parkı”
- Bengali: “প্রিপিয়াত চিত্তবিনোদন পার্ক”
- Chinese: “普里皮亞季遊樂園”
- Czech: “Městský park”
- Czech: “Zábavní park v Pripjati”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پريپيات اموزيمينت پارك”
- Estonian: “Prõpjati lõbustuspark”
- French: “Grande roue de Prypiat”
- French: “Parc d’attractions de Prypiat”
- German: “Stadtpark”
- Hungarian: “Pripjatyi vidámpark”
- Indonesian: “Taman Bermain Pripyat”
- Italian: “parco divertimenti di Pryp’jat‘”
- Italian: “Parco divertimenti di Pryp"jat’”
- Japanese: “プリピャチ遊園地”
- Korean: “프리피야트 놀이공원”
- Korean: “프리피야티 놀이공원”
- Latvian: “Pripjatas atrakciju parks”
- Portuguese: “Parque de diversão de Pripyat”
- Russian: “Городской парк”
- Russian: “Парк развлечений (Припять)”
- Russian: “Парк развлечений”
- Slovenian: “Zabaviščni park Pripjat”
- Spanish: “Parque de atracciones de Pripiat”
- Spanish: “Parque de atracciones de Prípiat”
- Ukrainian: “Міський парк”
- Ukrainian: “Парк розваг (Прип’ять)”
- Ukrainian: “Парк розваг”
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