Chornobyl

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Image - Chornobyl: Saint Elijah's Church.

Image - An abandoned synagogue building in Chornobyl.

Image - Chornobyl: Archangel with Trumpet monument.

Chornobyl [Чорнобиль; Čornobyl']. Map: II-11. City (2015 pop 550) in Ivankiv raion center, Kyiv oblast; former port on the Prypiat River in Kyivan Polisia. Chornobyl was first mentioned in the chronicles in 1193 as a town in Kyiv principality. Before the Revolution of 1917 Chornobyl was an autonomous (zashtatne) town in Radomyshl county with a population employed in agriculture and small trades. For some time it was an important centre of Hasidism. The city has experienced periods of decline: in 1897 it had 9,300 inhabitants, while in 1926 it had 9,000. The main industry was food processing, but the city also had a pig-iron foundry and a ship-repair base. Since 1977 the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station has been located in the vicinity of the city. In 1986 the city population was 12,500 and Chornobyl was a raion center in Kyiv oblast. However, following the Chornobyl nuclear disaster on 26 April 1986, the majority of the city’s residents were evacuated and Chornobyl turned into a ghost town.

[This article was updated in 2017.]

Image - A deserted street in Chornobyl, Kyiv oblast.

Image - The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station in Prypiat, near Chornobyl, Kyiv oblast.

List of related links from Encyclopedia of Ukraine pointing to Chornobyl entry:

1 Bondarenko, Ivan 2 Castles 3 Chernihiv oblast 4 Chernobyl 5 Chornobyl nuclear disaster 6 Communist Youth League of Ukraine 7 Hasidism 8 Hurenko, Stanislav 9 Institute of the History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 10 Kyiv oblast 11 Maksymovych 12 Marchuk, Ivan 13 National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 14 Olyzar 15 Polisia 16 Prypiat River 17 Regimental system 18 Sapieha 19 Strike 20 Uzh River (Polisia)

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