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Chernobyl (/tʃɜːrˈnoʊbəl/) or Chornobyl (Ukrainian: Чорнобиль, romanized: Chornobyl) is a ghost city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Ivankiv Raion of northern Kiev Oblast, Ukraine, near Ukraine's border with Belarus. Chernobyl is about 90 kilometres (56 mi) north of Kiev, and approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) southwest of the Belarusian city of Gomel. Chernobyl is 16 km (9.9 mi) from Ukraine's border with Belarus. The city was the administrative center of Chernobyl Raion (district) from 1923, until it was disestablished in 1988. Before its evacuation, the city had about 14,000 residents.[1]
The city was evacuated on 27 April 1986, 30 hours after the nuclear accident at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which was the most disastrous nuclear accident in history. The plant was within the Chernobyl Raion district. After the accident, administration of the Chernobyl Raion district was transferred to the neighboring Ivankiv Raion. Pripyat, a city of 50,000 people built in the 1970s as a home for the power-plant's workers, was closer to the power plant than Chernobyl, and was also evacuated. The city of Slavutych, built for those evacuated from Pripyat, also received the population evacuated from Chernobyl.
Although Chernobyl is mostly a ghost town today, a small number of animals and people still live there, in houses marked with signs that read "Owner of this house lives here".[2] Workers on watch and administrative personnel of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are also stationed in the city. There are two general stores, and a tourist hotel

Geography

The city's name is the same as a Ukrainian name for Artemisia vulgaris, mugwort or common wormwood, which is Ukrainian: чорнобиль, romanized: chornóbyl’ (or more commonly Ukrainian: полин звичайний, romanized: polýn zvycháynyy, lit. 'common artemisia').[3] The name is inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьrnobylъ or Proto-Slavic *čьrnobyl, a compound of Proto-Slavic *čьrnъ 'black' + Proto-Slavic *bylь 'grass', the parts related to Ukrainian: чорний, romanized: chórnyy, lit. 'black' and Ukrainian: било, romanized: byló, lit. 'stalk', so named in distinction to the lighter-stemmed wormwood A. absinthium.[3]
The name in languages used nearby is:
Ukrainian: Чорнобиль, romanized: Chornobyl′, Ukrainian pronunciation: [tʃɔrˈnɔbɪlʲ] Belarusian: Чарнобыль, romanized: Charnobyl′, Belarusian pronunciation: [ʈʂarˈnɔbɨlʲ] Russian: Чернобыль, tr. Chernobyl′, IPA: [t͡ɕɪrˈnobɨlʲ] The name in languages formerly used in the area is:
Polish: Czarnobyl, [t͡ʂarˈnɔbɨl] Yiddish: טשערנאָבל‎, romanized: Tshernobl, Yiddish pronunciation: [tʃɜrˈnɔbl̩]
Chernobyl area as seen from the Russian space station Mir in 1997 Chernobyl was originally part of the land of Kievan Rus′. The first known mention of Chernobyl is from an 1193 charter, which describes it as a hunting-lodge of Knyaz Rurik Rostislavich.[4][5] In the 13th century, it was a crown village of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The village was granted to Filon Kmita, a captain of the royal cavalry, as a fiefdom in 1566. The province where Chernobyl is located was transferred to the Kingdom of Poland in 1569, and later annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793.[6] Prior to the 20th century, Chernobyl was inhabited by Ukrainian, some Polish peasants and a relatively large number of Jews.[citation needed]
Jews were brought to Chernobyl by Filon Kmita, during the Polish campaign of colonization. After 1596, the traditionally Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian peasantry of the district were forcibly converted, by Poland, to the Greek Catholic Uniate religion.[citation needed] Many of these converts returned to Eastern Orthodoxy after the Partitions of Poland.[citation needed]
In 1626, during the Counter-reformation, the Dominican church and monastery were founded by Lukasz Sapieha. A group of Old Catholics opposed the decrees of the Council of Trent.[clarification needed] In 1832, following the failed Polish November Uprising, the Dominican monastery was sequestrated. The church of the Old Catholics was disbanded in 1852.[4]
In the second half of the 18th century, Chernobyl became a major center of Hasidic Judaism. The Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty had been founded by Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky. The Jewish population suffered greatly from pogroms in October 1905 and in March–April 1919; many Jews were killed or robbed at the instigation of the Russian nationalist Black Hundreds. When the Twersky Dynasty left Chernobyl in 1920, it ceased to exist as a centre of Hasidism.
Chernobyl had a population of 10,800 in 1898, including 7,200 Jews. Chernobyl was occupied in World War I[by whom?]; Ukrainians and Bolsheviks fought over the city in the ensuing Civil War. In the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–20, Chernobyl was taken first by the Polish Army and then by cavalry of the Red Army. From 1921 onwards, it was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR.[4]
Between 1929 and 1933, Chernobyl suffered from killings during Stalin's collectivization campaign. It was also affected by the famine that resulted from Stalin's policies.[7] The Polish and German community of Chernobyl was deported to Kazakhstan in 1936, during the Frontier Clearances.[8]
During World War II, Chernobyl was occupied by the German Army from 25 August 1941 to 17 November 1943. The Jewish community was murdered during the Nazi occupation of 1941–44.[4]
Twenty years later, the area was chosen as the site of the first nuclear power station to be built on Ukrainian soil. The Duga over-the-horizon radar array, several miles outside of Chernobyl, was the origin of the Russian Woodpecker; it was designed as part of an anti-ballistic missile early warning radar network. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Chernobyl remained part of Ukraine.

Fauna & Flora

Mutated plants and animals. and Bamboo

Natural Resources

Radiation. Depleted Uranium. A lot of unused property. Ambient spirit energy.

Alternative Name(s)

Ukrainian: Чорнобиль, romanized: Chornobyl′, Ukrainian pronunciation: [tʃɔrˈnɔbɪlʲ]

Type

Badlands

Location under

Location

Owner/Ruler

The Ucraine

Owning Organization

The Ucraine

Contested By

• Russia military