There were fifteen primary schools, five secondary schools and one vocational school, a hospital that could hold 410 patients, three clinics, twenty-five stores and malls, twenty-seven cafes, cafeterias and restaurants, ten warehouses, a culture palace, movie theater and school of arts. The average age in Pripyat was 26 years old, and the total living space was 658,700 square miles (1,706,025 square kilometers), comprised of 13,414 apartments in 160 apartment blocks, 18 halls of residence that could hold up to 7,621 single persons, and an additional eight halls of residence reserved for married couples. The roads were widened, and the streets and blocks were made symmetrical in order to improve navigation and reduce traffic and other issues.
The city was built around the triangular principal, with construction headed by Moscow architect Nicolay Ostozhenko, along with other Moscow and Kiev architects, with multiple-story buildings which lead to the city being lined with broad vistas and open space, and a wide horizon viewable from nearly all corners. The use of nuclear power for peaceful purposes had led to the popularization of the term "peaceful atom" (in Russian: мирный атом, mirnyj atom). At the time, nuclear power was praised as an achievement of Soviet engineering. There was also a railroad link to Kiev Yazov station.Īs it was not considered to have much in the way of military importance, Pripyat did not have any entry restrictions prior to the disaster. Before the city's desertion after the disaster of 1986, approximately fifty thousand people lived in the city, with an annual growth of about fifteen hundred - an average of 800 born in the city and 500 newcomers from around the Soviet Union. The city was established in 1970 to house the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and their families after plans to build the plant near Kiev were aborted. Pripyat lies in northern Ukraine's Kiev Oblast (province), near the border of Belarus, and is supervised both directly by Kiev Oblast and a special ministry that handles the Zone of Alienation.
Fifty thousand people used to live in this city.
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