Chornobyl

Chornobyl is a city in the restricted Chornobyl Exclusion Zone situated in northern Kyiv Oblast (region) of Ukraine near the border with Belarus. The city had been the administrative center of the Chornobyl Raion (district) since 1932.

The basis and existence of the city of Chornobyl is eventful history. The city was on one of the important communicative ways of the Middle Ages, on a crossroads of different cultures and religions. In the territory of the Chornobyl area, a type of culture formed in ancient times, which still attracts the views of ethnographers.

The Liberation War of the Ukrainian people occurred between 1648-1654 and Chornobyl lands were not spared. As a result, Chornobyl repeatedly changed hands. In those years, a Kyiv rebel army regiment under the command of Bohdan Khmelnytsky A. Zhdanovich visited Chornobyl, but after one month, the city was taken by a Polish-Lithuanian army by Radzwill. When the flames of the Right Ukraine rebel movement erupted, Chornobyl was protected by the rebels twice, in 1747 and 1751. In response, the punitive detachment of a Polish gentry, headed by Matskevich, passed by fire and sword, almost across the terrain along the rivers Teterev and Pripyat.

Passes to the Chornobyl: www.chernobyl-tour.com/permit.html
More information on web-site - www.chornobyl.in.ua/chornobyl.htm
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