Pripyat or Pripiat  is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus.

Named after the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.^[2] It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360^[3] by the time it was evacuated, a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine'sMinistry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.