Proclaimed as a city in 1979, the settlement was built to house the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which was constructed at the same time. Visited October 2019 Chernobyl, Ukraine Abandoned since the Chernobyl disasterįounded on 4th February 1970 and named after the nearby river, Pripyat was the ninth “nuclear city” to be constructed by the Soviet Union.
