Chornobyl, Ukraine, autumn 2017

Chornobyl (Ukranian: Чорнобиль) is located in Central Ukraine, near the border with Belarus; the location is infamous because of the nuclear meltdown on April 26th, 1986. Chernobyl or Chornobyl (IPA /tʃɜːrˈnoʊbɪl/) is a city in the restricted Chernobyl Exclusion Zone situated in the Ivankiv Raion of northern Kiev Oblast, near Ukraine’s border with Belarus. Chernobyl is about 90 kilometres (56 mi) northeast of Kiev, and approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) southwest of the Belarusian city of Gomel. The city was the administrative center of Chernobyl Raion (district) from 1923 until it was disestablished in 1988. Before its evacuation, the city had about 14,000 residents.[1] As of 2017, the city has a population of 690. The city was evacuated on 27 April 1986, 30 hours after the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which was the most disastrous nuclear accident in history. The power plant was within the Chernobyl Raion district. Pripyat, a city