Pripyat (Stephenverse)

Pripyat (/ˈpriːpjət, ˈprɪp-/ PREE-pyət, PRIP-yət; Russian: При́пять), also known as Pryp'yat' or Prypiat (Ukrainian: При́пʼять, IPA: [ˈprɪpjɐtʲ]) is a city in northern Ukraine, near the Ukraine–Belarus border. 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. It is officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had grown to a population of 107,885 in 2019.
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