Polissya
The Polissya hotel is one of the tallest buildings in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine. It was built in the mid-1970s to house delegations and guests visiting the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: BKfi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Hotel building
- Description: abandoned hotel in the ghost town of Pripyat, in Ukraine
- Also known as: “Polissya hotel”
- Address: вулиця Курчатова 8
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Amusement Park and Avanhard Stadium.
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. Amusement Park is situated 210 metres northwest of 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 450 metres northwest of Polissya.
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 Polissya.
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, catering the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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 Polissya.
Polissya
- Categories: hotel, abandoned building or structure, building, accommodation, and tourism
- Location: Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.40706° or 51° 24′ 25″ northLongitude
30.05836° or 30° 3′ 30″ eastLevels
7Open location code
9G3GC345+R8OpenStreetMap ID
way 357266685OpenStreetMap feature
building=hotelWikidata ID
Q4549571
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Polissya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فندق بوليسيا”
- Armenian: “Պոլիսյա հյուրանոց”
- Bengali: “পলিস্যা হোটেল”
- Catalan: “Hotel Polissia”
- Chinese: “波利西亞酒店”
- Czech: “Hotel Polesí”
- Czech: “Polesí”
- Dutch: “Hotel Polesie”
- Dutch: “Hotel Polesië”
- French: “hôtel Polissya”
- French: “Hôtel Polissya”
- German: “Gasthof Polissya”
- German: “Polesje”
- German: “Polissya Hotel”
- Indonesian: “Hotel Polissya”
- Italian: “Hotel Polissja”
- Japanese: “ポリーシャ・ホテル”
- Korean: “폴리시아 호텔”
- Lithuanian: “Polesė”
- Polish: “Hotel Polesie”
- Polish: “Polesie”
- Portuguese: “Hotel Polissya”
- Russian: “гостиница Полесье”
- Russian: “Полесье”
- Slovenian: “Hotel Polissija”
- Spanish: “Hotel Polissya”
- Ukrainian: “Полісся (готель)”
- Ukrainian: “Полісся”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Polissya”. Photo: BKfi, CC BY-SA 3.0.