One notable landmark often featured in photographs of the city and visible from aerial-imaging websites is the long-abandoned Ferris wheel located in the Pripyat amusement park, which had been scheduled to have its official opening five days after the disaster, in time for May Day celebrations. After the city of Chernobyl, this was the second-largest city for accommodating power plant workers and scientists in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In 1986, the city of Slavutych was constructed to replace Pripyat. In 2009, over two decades after the Chernobyl incident, the Azure Swimming Pool shows decay after years of disuse. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Īlthough Pripyat was located within the administrative district of Vyshhorod Raion (prior to the 2020 raion reform Ivankiv Raion) the abandoned municipality now has the status of city of oblast significance within the larger Kyiv Oblast ( province) and is administered directly from Kyiv.

It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had grown to a population of 49,360 by the time it was evacuated on the afternoon of 27 April 1986, the day after the Chernobyl disaster. 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. Pripyat ( / ˈ p r iː p j ə t, ˈ p r ɪ p-/ PREE-pyət, PRIP-yət Russian: При́пять), also known as Pryp'yat' or Prypiat ( Ukrainian: При́пʼять, IPA: ), was a city in northern Ukraine, near the Ukraine– Belarus border.

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