page_title: Prypiat
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caption_attribution_description: English: View of Chernobyl power plant taken from the roof of a residential building in Pripyat, Ukraine. Photo Taken by Jason Minshull. العربية: وبالنظر الى تشيرنوبيل ماخوذه من سطح المبنى في بريبيات ، اوكرانيا. Deutsch: Blick von einem Hausdach auf Pripyat, im Hintergrund der Reaktor von Tschernobyl. Italiano: Vista di Chernobyl dall'alto di un palazzo in Pripyat, Ucraina. Foto realizzata da Jason Minshull. Español: Vista de Chernobyl tomada desde el tejado de un edificio en Pripyat, Ucrania. Foto tomada por Jason Minshull. Suomi: Kuva rakennuksen katolta Pripjatista, Ukrainasta. Taustalla näkyy tuhoutunut reaktori. Kuvannut Jason Minshull. Ελληνικά: Άποψη της μονάδας παραγωγής ενέργειας του Chernobyl που ελήφθει από την οροφή ενός κτιρίου κατοικιών στο Pripyat της Ουκρανίας. 日本語: チェルノブイリ原子力発電所（中央奥）の遠景。Jason Minshull撮影 Nederlands: Weergave van Tsjernobyl genomen van het dak van een gebouw in Pripyat, Oekraïne. Polski: Widok z dachu domu opuszczonego miasta Prypeć. Slovenčina: Pohľad na elektráreň Černobyľ odfotený z obytného domu v Pripjati, Ukrajina. Slovenščina: Zapuščeno mesto Pripjat z jedrsko elektrarno Černobil v ozadju 中文: 從烏克蘭普里皮亞特鎮的廢棄住宅頂樓遠眺車諾比核電廠 Русский: Припять. Вид на Чернобыльскую АЭС и город с крыши жилого дома. עברית: פריפיאט. מבט על הכור הגרעיני בצ'רנוביל מגג של בית מגורים בעיר פריפייאט (כ-3 ק"מ מצ'רנוביל) Português: Vista de Chernobyl retirado do telhado de um prédio em Pripyat, na Ucrânia. Foto tirada por Jason Minshull. 한국어: 프리피야트에 있는 건물 지붕에서 찍은 체르노빌의 전경. Jason Minshull이 촬영. Magyar: A csernobili atomerőmű látképe egy pripjatyi ház tetejéről fényképezve. Készítette: Jason Minshull
context_page_description: Pripyat is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine. It lies in Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. It was home to Chernobyl nuclear power plant workers. The city was abandoned in 1986 after the Chernobyl accident, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history. Before being abandoned, about 48,000 people lived in the city. The city was founded in the 1970s, when the nuclear power plant opened.
  The site today is practically a museum showing the late Soviet era. With entirely abandoned buildings, including abandoned apartment buildings, swimming pools and hospitals, everything inside remains, from records to papers to children's toys and clothing. Pripyat and the surrounding area will not be safe for people to live there for several centuries. Scientists think that the most dangerous radioactive elements will take up to nine hundred years to decay sufficiently to render the area safe.
  The city is entirely accessible and is relatively safe on the road, although it is unsafe to go around the city without a radiation dosimeter that measures exposure.
context_section_description: Pripyat (Ukrainian: При́п'ять, Pryp”iat’) is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine. It lies in Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. It was home to Chernobyl nuclear power plant workers. The city was abandoned in 1986 after the Chernobyl accident, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history. Before being abandoned, about 48,000 people lived in the city. The city was founded in the 1970s, when the nuclear power plant opened.
  The site today is practically a museum showing the late Soviet era. With entirely abandoned buildings, including abandoned apartment buildings (four of which were yet to be used), swimming pools and hospitals, everything inside remains, from records to papers to children's toys and clothing. Pripyat and the surrounding area will not be safe for people to live there for several centuries. Scientists think that the most dangerous radioactive elements will take up to nine hundred years to decay sufficiently to render the area safe.
  The city is entirely accessible and is relatively safe on the road, although it is unsafe to go around the city without a radiation dosimeter that measures exposure. The doors of all the buildings are open to reduce the risk to visitors, although many have accumulated too much radioactive material to be safe to visit.
caption: View of the Chernobyl power plant from Pripyat
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