where is chernobyl russia
Chernobyl, or Chornobyl, is the name of a city situated in northern Ukraine near the border with Belarus.Chernobyl was largely abandoned following the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located 14.5 kilometres (9 miles) away.Ukraine was part of Russia on the 26th April 1986 when the disaster occurred.he âChernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienationâ is the officially designated exclusion area around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.