Yaniv (village)

Yaniv (Ukrainian: Янів, Russian: Янов - Yanov) is a Ukrainian abandoned village of the Kiev Oblast, located south of Pripyat and west of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.[4]

Yaniv Янів
Village
Yaniv station building
Yaniv Location of Yaniv in Ukraine
Coordinates: 51°23′39″N 30°3′36″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kiev
Raion	Chernobyl (1923–1980) Pripyat[1] (since 1980)[2][3]
Population  (2006)
• Total	0
	(100 in 1986)
Area code(s)	+380 4493

Abandoned trains at Yaniv station

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 World War II.[3][5]

Part of the (now defunct) Chernobyl Raion, ten years after the construction of the nuclear plant in 1970, Yaniv became administratively part of the new adjacent city of Pripyat, founded in the same year.[2] Immediately after the Chernobyl disaster, on April 27, 1986, the 100 villagers were completely evacuated and resettled elsewhere, due to the high level of radioactive contamination. Because of the impossibility of effective decontamination 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. De jure, it still belongs to Pripyat, which didn't lose its status of "city of regional significance", but is de facto part of Ivankiv Raion.

Geography

Located just south of the cooperative market building of Pripyat,[6] 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, and circa 20 from the Belarusian border.[7]

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 line section. The station building, refurbished in the 2010s, is now used by local workers to repair heavy machinery.[8][9]

See also

• Slavutych
• Yaniv railway station
• Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

References

1. Pripyat is not a raion but a city of regional significance, that is designated as a separate district within its Oblast
2. "City of Pripyat, Kiev Oblast". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
3. (in Russian) Yaniv War Memorial
4. 337508719 Yaniv on OpenStreetMap
5. (in Russian) "On the Dnieper in 1943"
6. Cooperative Market of Pripyat
7. Google. "Yaniv" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
8. "Radioactive Railroad - Permanently Contaminated: The Railroad Graveyard". radioactiverailroad.com. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
9. "UrbanX: Yaniv Train Station - Pripyat". urbanxphotography.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-01.

External links

Media related to Yaniv at Wikimedia Commons