Pripyat: City denied a future Pripyat was built as a city of the future. Founded in 1970, by 1986 it had around 50,000 residents, with an average age of just 26. Schools, kindergartens, a swimming ...
A large area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was vacated as a result of the accident that shocked the world in 1986 was called the "exclusion zone". At that time, Chernobyl and its ...