Naroulia ( be, Нароўля, russian: Наровля, pl, Narowla) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

in the

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 ...

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

. The population is 8 026 people as of 2021. In 1986, the city experienced heavy

radioactive Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A material containing unstable nuclei is consid ...

fallout Nuclear fallout is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave has passed. It commonly refers to the radioac ...

from the

Chernobyl accident The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nu ...

. Today it is located on the border of

Polesie State Radioecological Reserve The Polesie State Radioecological Reserve ( be, Палескі дзяржаўны радыяцыйна-экалагічны запаведнік, russian: Полесский государственный радиационно-экологич� ...

Gallery

Brockhaus_and_Efron_Jewish_Encyclopedia_e11_523-0.jpg, Wooden synagogue before 1906. Aron_Kascialianski_-_Sinagoga_u_Narouli_-_near_1927_AD.JPG, Painting of around 1927 by Aron Kascialianski (1891-1934) Naraŭlanskaja_synagoga._Нараўлянская_сынагога_(1916).jpg, Synagogue in 1916

References

Towns in Belarus Populated places in Gomel Region Minsk Voivodeship Rechitsky Uyezd Naroulia District {{Belarus-geo-stub