Named after the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360
before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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