Complex sentence: Prypiat was founded in 1970 to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers, officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster.
Split into simpler sentences: Prypiat was founded in 1970 to house workers for the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It officially proclaimed a city in 1979, but was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster.