The Pripyat begins in the Volhynian Upland, between the villages of Budniki and Rohivi Smoliary in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. After 204 km downstream, it crosses the border of Belarus , where it travels 500 km through Polesia , Europe's largest wilderness, within which lie the vast sandy wetlands known as the Pinsk marshes , a dense network of ...

Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth atomgrad (a type of closed city in the Soviet Union) to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located north of the abandoned city of Chernobyl, after which the power plant is named. [3]

In the early hours of April 26, 1986, a nuclear accident took place during a safety test at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station near the city of Pripyat, in what was then the Soviet...

Pripyat, once a thriving city of nearly 50,000 residents, now stands as an eerie ghost town. Its tragic history, intertwined with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986, has captured the imagination and curiosity of many adventurers and historians.

Max Vasmer in his etymological dictionary notes that the historical name of the river mentioned in the earliest East Slavic document, the Primary Chronicle, is Pripet' (Припеть), and cites the opinion of other linguists that the name meant "tributary", comparing with Greek and Latin roots.