Dzernavichy ( be, Дзёрнавічы; russian: Дёрновичи, Dernovichi), also spelled ''Dzyornavichy'' or ''Dyornovichi'', is an abandoned

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ian village in

Naroulia District Naroulia Rajon or Naraulianski Rajon ( be, Нараўлянскі раён, russian: Наровлянский район) is an administrative subdivision, a rajon of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus. Its administrative seat is the town of Naroulia. G ...

Gomel Region Gomel Region or Gomel Oblast or Homiel Voblasts ( be, Го́мельская во́бласць, Homielskaja vobłasć, russian: Гомельская область, Gomelskaya oblast) is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative center i ...

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History

Founded in the 18th Century, in 1939 it annexed the farm Krasilovka (russian: Красиловка). In 1943, during

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, it was interested by the underground activities of Soviet partisans and was partially burned and ransacked by the Waffen-SS, that established a stronghold there. It was liberated on November 30, after a battle. in 1959 it had a population of 1,016, with 308 families. Following the 1986 nuclear disaster of Chernobyl, it was abandoned and, from 1988, included in the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve; a Belarusian nature reserve that adjoins the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in

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Geography

The village is located by the western shore of the Pripyat River, in front of Aravichy, between the cities of Pripyat, in

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Naroulia Naroulia ( be, Нароўля, russian: Наровля, pl, Narowla) is a town in the Gomel Region, Belarus. The population is 8 026 people as of 2021. In 1986, the city experienced heavy radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident. Today it ...

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{{Polesie State Radioecological Reserve Populated places in Gomel Region Minsk Voivodeship Minsk Governorate Ghost towns in the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve

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