Today, Pripyat is an abandoned city located in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 3 km northwest of the closed Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, about 110 km north of Kyiv in a straight line. Immediately after the accident, radiation levels in the Chernobyl zone and Pripyat were very high.

However, 39 years ago, it was a rapidly growing city with a population of about 47,500 people. Pripyat on Google Maps. Photos: pripyat-city.ru

Pripyat, not yet abandoned

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