Pripyat

Pripyat

Прип'ять
Pripyat Прип'ять
City and ghost town
	Prypiat
	Clockwise from top-left:; Pripyat central square; apartment buildings with the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement in the distance; the Ferris wheel of the Pripyat amusement park; an abandoned sport hall; natural overgrowth at an apartment block; the Pripyat welcome sign;
	Interactive map of Pripyat
	Pripyat Location within Kyiv Oblast Pripyat Location within Ukraine
	Coordinates: 51°24′22″N 30°3′26″E / 51.40611°N 30.05722°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kyiv Oblast
Raion	Vyshhorod Raion; Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (de facto);
Founded	4 February 1970
City rights	1979
Abandoned	1986
Named for	Pripyat River
Government
• Administration	State Agency of Ukraine on the Exclusion Zone Management
Area
• Total	6.59 km2 (2.54 sq mi)
Elevation	111 m (364 ft)
Population (2026)
• Total	0
	(c. 49,000 in 1986)
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal code	None (formerly 01196)
Area code	+380 4499

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. Residents of Pripyat worked at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, north of the abandoned city of Chernobyl, after which the power plant was named. Pripyat was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had grown to a population of 49,360 before it was evacuated on 27 April 1986, one day after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The entire population of Pripyat was moved to the purpose-built city of Slavutych.

Although it is located in Vyshhorod Raion, the abandoned municipality is administered directly from the capital of Kyiv. Pripyat is supervised by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl exclusion zone.