Yaniv ( uk, Янів, russian: Янов - ''Yanov'') is an

abandoned village An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages have been deserted for a variety of causes. Abandonment of villages is often related to epidemic, f ...

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 ...

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...

, located south of

Pripyat Pripyat ( ; russian: При́пять), also known as Prypiat ( uk, При́пʼять, , ), is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1 ...

and west of

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP; ; ), is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine northwest of the city of Chernobyl, from the Belarus–Ukraine border, ...

, in

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History

First mentioned in the 18th century, it was the scene of some bloody battles between 3 and 15 October 1943, during the " Chernihiv-Pripyat Operation" of the

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. Part of the (now defunct)

Chernobyl Raion The Chernobyl Raion (russian: Чернобыльский район, translit=Chernobyl'skiy rayon) or Chornobyl Raion ( uk, Чорнобильський район, translit=Chornobylskyi raion) was one of 26 administrative raions (districts) o ...

, ten years after the construction of the nuclear plant in 1970, Yaniv became administratively part of the new adjacent city of

, founded in the same year. Immediately after the

Chernobyl disaster 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 nuc ...

, on April 27, 1986, the 100 villagers were completely evacuated and resettled elsewhere, due to the high level of

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. Because of the impossibility of effective

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of most buildings, they were destroyed and buried in 1987. The village, deregistered on April 1, 2003, is included in the "10 Km Zone" of the

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, Belarusian: Хона адчужэння Чарнобыльскай АЭС, ''Zona adčužennia Čarnobyĺskaj AES'', russian: Зона отчуждения Чернобыльской АЭС ...

. ''

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'', it still belongs to Pripyat, which didn't lose its status of " city of regional significance", but is ''

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'' part of

. From February to April 2022, Yaniv was

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by Russia as a result of the 2022 invasion.

Geography

Located just south of the cooperative market building of Pripyat, and next to the ''Bridge of Death'', Yaniv is a tiny village 2 km far from the nuclear plant, 18 from the town 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 ...

, and circa 20 from the

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ian border. Its railway station, mainly serving the adjacent city, was an important hub of the Chernihiv–Ovruch line, also used for long-distance trains. After the 1986 disaster, it is out of service along with Yaniv-

Ovruch Ovruch ( uk, Овруч, pl, Owrucz, yi, , russian: О́вруч) is a city in Korosten Raion, in the Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. Prior to 2020, it was the administrative center of the former Ovruch Raion (district). It has ...

line section. The

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, refurbished in the 2010s, is now used by local workers to repair heavy machinery.

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{{Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Villages in Vyshhorod Raion Ghost towns in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Pripyat Populated places disestablished in 1986 1986 disestablishments in Ukraine

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