Opachychi ( uk, Опачичі) was a village in the

Vyshhorod Raion Vyshhorod Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Vyshhorod. It has a population of On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast ...

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), in

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) of central

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, located south-east of

Chernobyl Chernobyl ( , ; russian: Чернобыль, ) or Chornobyl ( uk, Чорнобиль, ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about no ...

. It belongs to

Ivankiv settlement hromada Ivankiv ( uk, Іва́нків ) is an urban-type settlement in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast (oblast, province) of Ukraine. It is situated on the left bank of the Teteriv River. Ivankiv hosts the administration of Ivankiv settlement hromada, one o ...

, one of the

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s of Ukraine.

History

The village is infamous for being an outlying area within the

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. The permanent population was evacuated following the 1986 accident, and officially the village was liquidated (i.e. excluded from the list of settlements of Kyiv Oblast) in 1999. However, despite

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a few residents (''

samosely ''Samosely'' ( uk, самосели, russian: самосёлы, be, самасёлы — "self-settlers") are residents of the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone surrounding the most heavily contaminated areas near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

'') have returned to live there, and as of 28 March 2006 the population was 19. Until 18 July 2020, Opachychi belonged to

Ivankiv Raion Ivankiv Raion () was a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Ivankiv. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the numbe ...

. The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Ivankiv Raion was merged into Vyshhorod Raion. From February to April 2022, Opachychi was

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by Russia as a result of the 2022 invasion.

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Villages in Vyshhorod Raion Ghost towns in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone {{ghost-town-stub

History

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