Population: 49,400 before the disaster.The following statistics are from 1 January 1986. Дuring the 2020 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone wildfires, the flames reached the outskirts of the town they did not reach the plant. This was the first time former residents returned to the city since its abandonment back in 1986. On 4 February 2020, former residents of Pripyat gathered in the abandoned city to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pripyat's establishment. The Azure Swimming Pool and Avanhard Stadium are two other popular tourist sites. One notable landmark often featured in photographs of the city and visible from aerial-imaging websites is the long-abandoned Ferris wheel located in the Pripyat amusement park, which had been scheduled to have its official opening five days after the disaster, in time for May Day celebrations. After the city of Chernobyl, this was the second-largest city for accommodating power plant workers and scientists in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In 1986, the city of Slavutych was constructed to replace Pripyat. In 2009, over two decades after the Chernobyl incident, the Azure Swimming Pool shows decay after years of disuse. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. ДЄlthough Pripyat was located within the administrative district of Vyshhorod Raion (prior to the 2020 raion reform Ivankiv Raion) the abandoned municipality now has the status of city of oblast significance within the larger Kyiv Oblast ( province) and is administered directly from Kyiv. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had grown to a population of 49,360 by the time it was evacuated on the afternoon of 27 April 1986, the day after the Chernobyl disaster. Named after the nearby river Pripyat, the town was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth 'atomgrad', a type of closed town in the Soviet Union, to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Pripyat ( / Л€ p r iЛђ p j Й™ t, Л€ p r ЙЄ p-/ PREE-pyЙ™t, PRIP-yЙ™t Russian: РџСЂРёМЃРїСЏС‚СЊ), also known as Pryp'yat' or Prypiat ( Ukrainian: РџСЂРёМЃРїКјСЏС‚СЊ, IPA: ), was a city in northern Ukraine, near the UkraineвЂ“ Belarus border.

Pripyat call of duty