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Pripyat, ukraine #82976939
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Named after the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, as the ninth nuclear city a type of closed city in the Soviet Union, to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.[3] It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360[4] by the time it was evacuated, on the afternoon of April 27, 1986, the day after the Chernobyl disaster.[