Pripyat the Forgotten City

View of Pripyat – Jan Smith 2011

Pripyat Jewel of Soviet Urban Planning

At the time of the accident Chernobyl, was about 800 years old and had c.15,000 people.  Today it has about 3,000 inhabitants. Down the road, the City of Pripyat was built in 1970  to house the plant workers. It was a planned city, and if one looks at it from above, the shape of a sickle becomes evident in the main plaza.  On April 25th, 1986, Pripyat had about 49,400 inhabitants.  Had the accident not occured, estimates place Pripyat’s population in 2010 at close to 80,000. Continue reading “Chernobyl 25 Years Revisited – Chapter 6 A City in Numbers” →