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The map of Pripyat belongs to the so-called one, closed to visits by ordinary citizens. You can get into this zone using special passes, which are issued either to tourist groups or to employees Chernobyl nuclear power plant, who are still monitoring the dilapidated station.
It is noteworthy that all other villages and urban settlements of the Exclusion Zone were recognized as virtually non-existent and deprived of any legal status. After 1986, the entire population of the city was evacuated. For 30 years, Pripyat has remained empty, but despite the status of a place abandoned by people, Ukraine has not deprived it of its status as a populated area. Chernobyl and Pripyat are still existing cities in the country’s documentation.
To get to Pripyat and see the ghost town with your own eyes, you need to overcome a difficult route with checks and checkpoints. We will tell you how to get to the mystical atom-city, where Pripyat is located and what the map of the abandoned city looks like.
Pripyat on the world map is a small Soviet town designed for 75 thousand inhabitants (however, only 49 thousand people lived in it). It is located on the territory of Ukraine, bordering Belarus. The city is surrounded by impenetrable forests with unique flora and fauna, and a protected area is located nearby.
Where is Pripyat? Pripyat on the map of Ukraine is located in the north of the country, “above” Kyiv, very close to the border with Belarus. The city is part of the Ivankovsky district of the Kyiv region. The entire Exclusion Zone occupies the north of the Ivankovsky and northern Polessky districts (there are 25 district units in the Kyiv region in total). In fact, Pripyat is subordinate to the Kyiv Regional Council.
Interestingly, the Chernobyl region previously existed on the territory of Ukraine. It is not difficult to guess that its administrative center was Chernobyl, and largest city– Pripyat.
In 1988, the Chernobyl district was abolished, and its territory was given to the Ivankovsky district (the administrative center is the urban-type settlement Ivankov).
After the annexation, the Ivankovsky district became the largest geographically in Ukraine. Its area is 3616 sq. km. About 35 thousand people live in the area.
The main attraction of the area (except for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, of course) is the Chernobyl special reserve. In fact, this is a nature reserve created in 2007 in a forest area near. Its main goal is to preserve and increase the population of rare animals and plants. The reserve is home to brown bears, European minks and Eurasian lynxes. Despite the proximity to places contaminated with radiation, the animals are alive and well - by the way, just like in the city of Pripyat itself.
Interestingly, in Ukraine there is another settlement called Pripyat. The village of Pripyat, Shatsk district, Volyn region, is located 150 km from Lutsk, in the north-west of the country. The village of Pripyat on the map of Ukraine occupies only 0.001 square meters. km. About 600 people live there. This settlement was founded earlier than the ghost town of the same name, in 1946.
How to get to Pripyat?
The Pripyat map allows you to get to your destination different ways. Let's consider each of the possible routes.
Routes Kyiv - Pripyat
How to get to Pripyat from Kyiv or Moscow? What checkpoints need to be overcome? How many kilometers from Kyiv to Pripyat will you have to travel? Is it possible to get to Pripyat as a “savage” and how dangerous is it?
Since Pripyat is part of the Kyiv region, the easiest way would be to first get to the capital of Ukraine, and from there move towards the Exclusion Zone. The distance from Kyiv to Pripyat is 152 kilometers. This is approximately 2-2.5 hours by car. You need to travel from south to north, from Kyiv and higher on the map. As for the distance from the beginning to the end of the journey, it is approximately the same on different Kyiv-Pripyat routes. There are no significant differences in the condition of the roads.
The Kyiv Pripyat route by car can take two roads. The first option will look something like this: Kyiv – Vyshgorod – Demidov – Katyuzhanka – Ivankov – Dityatki – Chernobyl – Pripyat. In this case, the path will run directly through the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Near the village of Dityatki there is a checkpoint into the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone. It’s called “Checkpoint – Dityatki”. Be prepared to present documents.
How to get to Pripyat by another route?
The second route “Pripyat Kyiv” is more roundabout; it runs along the T-1019 highway. From Kyiv you need to head for the village of Dmitrovka, then Mikulichi - Shibenoe - Sosnovka. After Sosnovka the route will go to Ivankov, then the route will be exactly the same as if you had chosen the Pripyat map in the first option.
In the second route, the distance Kyiv-Pripyat will be a couple of kilometers longer, but locals say that the second road is less congested and more convenient.
It is almost impossible to get lost along the way: the map of Pripyat is quite simple. There is only one properly paved road in the area, and besides, local old-timers are always ready to tell you where the city of Pripyat is located. Despite the fact that after 1986 the majority of residents of the territories adjacent to the Exclusion Zone left their homes, Lately there is a tendency to return. Of course, few people dare to live in the Zone, but the surrounding areas are no longer empty.
Routes Moscow - Pripyat
The Moscow-Pripyat route will, of course, be much longer. Direct distance from Moscow to Pripyat - from 950 to 1050 km, depending on which way you prefer to go.
Options highways three. First: Moscow - Obninsk - Kaluga - Bryansk - Konotop - Brovary - Kyiv - Pripyat. The journey will take 13 hours excluding Russian-Ukrainian customs.
With the second option of the Moscow-Pripyat route, the distance will be maximum - through the city of Orel. It looks something like this: Moscow – Podolsk – Serpukhov – Tula – Orel – Konotop – Brovary – Kyiv – Pripyat. The drive will take about 12 hours.
The third road route lies through Belarus. You will have to cross two borders along the way, but it is worth noting that all Belarusian-Ukrainian borders are considered less congested than Russian ones, and going through customs will most likely be much faster. You will have to go like this: Moscow – Smolensk – Mogilev – Gomel – Slavutich – Pripyat.
In addition, the distance from Moscow to Pripyat can be covered by many train options. You need to go from the capital of Russia to Kyiv or Mogilev, and then get there by car, because There are no trains or buses to Pripyat. However, it is impossible to reach Kyiv by plane; Russian airlines do not operate on Ukrainian territory after the events of 2013-2014.
Pripyat. Checkpoints
It is important to know that the entire map of Pripyat is divided into three territories: a 30-kilometer zone, a 10-kilometer zone and a dangerous zone.
The danger zone is the land in the immediate vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the nuclear power plant itself.
This 10-kilometer zone extends around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as is clear from the name of the zone, for 10 km.
30-kilometer zone - by 30 km, respectively.
The entire territory of the Exclusion Zone is surrounded by various checkpoints. No matter from which direction you arrive or enter, you will have to show your pass to the Zone or issue it on the spot. Who issues passes to the Zone? Pass office of the Exclusion Zone Administration.
To receive a pass, you must fill out an application, explaining why you are visiting the closed area. As a rule, passes are not issued to specific individuals, applications are filled out by certain enterprises, for example, excursion bureaus, research centers or law enforcement agencies. After filling out the application, the Zone Administration will issue a pass within 10 days.
At 30 kilometer zone There are such checkpoints (from east to west) as Cape Verde, Dityatki, Starye Sokoly, Dibrova, Polesskoye, Ovruch, Vilcha. The latter is already right on the border with Belarus.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW:
In the 10-kilometer zone, the checkpoints are: Paryshev, Lelev (near the city of Chernobyl), Pripyat and Benyovka.
How to get to Pripyat without a pre-prepared pass? It's possible. But only twice a year. On April 26 and May 9, the map of the city of Pripyat becomes available to everyone. These are the so-called “memorial days”, when relatives of those buried in the Zone can come to their relatives’ graves.
In the case of memorial days, you must inform the checkpoint that you are going to the cemetery and the guards are required to issue you temporary passes. You need to know that according to the law, checkpoint employees can inspect the car and ask you to open the trunks and glove compartments.
To Pripyat without a pass
How to get to Pripyat “savage”, that is, without passes and accompanying people? (people who study abandoned places) have long organized their secret paths. Based on information from bloggers and stalkers, we will briefly tell you how to get to Pripyat in a roundabout way. But you need to understand that this is an illegal and even judicial matter.
The most popular illegal route is from the abandoned village of Rudnya - Veresnya, which stands on right side river Uzh. This settlement is the first thing that the map of Pripyat opens on the western side of the Kyiv region.
The beginning of the path, Rudnya - Veresnya, is located quite far from the city of Pripyat, where the final destination of the walking journey is located. They are separated by 25 kilometers. You will have to walk less to the city of Chernobyl, about 13 km.
After an abandoned village, where quite intact houses remain, you will have to cross the Uzh River.
Then keep to the Chernobyl direction, after Chernobyl you need to walk a little more than 10 km to Pripyat. The path, of course, is extreme, but on the road from Chernobyl to the city of ghosts there are many abandoned places that will be interesting to look at. Tour groups show them infrequently, the route is inconvenient, but the places deserve attention. We will talk about them below.
The illegal journey from the border with the Zone to Pripyat on foot takes stalkers about two days.
Objects of Pripyat: what to see?
What is the map of Pripyat today? This is 8 sq. km of an abandoned Soviet city, 5 residential neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, cinemas and parks. Everything has long since fallen into disrepair. Most of the buildings either collapsed on their own or were helped to collapse by looters and homeless people.
After the evacuation of residents in 1986, people in trucks often visited the city. Food, equipment and furniture were removed from empty apartments and shops. Today it is unlikely that anything will be taken out of the Exclusion Zone: at the checkpoint, cars are inspected in search of radioactive objects. With dosimeters this is made easier than ever. And if you load an old chair from an abandoned apartment in Pripyat into the trunk, it will quickly become known.
However, now there is nothing to take out from the territory. There's almost nothing left there. The city of Pripyat on the map has turned into an empty wild jungle.
Few people know that the map of Pripyat is not only an abandoned city and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In the immediate vicinity of the ghost town there were many interesting objects, the ruins of which still exist near Pripyat.
If you take the usual car route, you will only be able to look at these objects from afar and briefly, but if you stop and explore the area, you can discover a lot of interesting things.
Object "Arc"
Pripyat on the map of the Kyiv region is located in close proximity to the city of Chernobyl, about 10 kilometers between them. In any case, you will have to pass Chernobyl along the road to the ghost town. But not only the well-known city, but also the secret, small town of Chernobyl-2, built for the workers of the Duga radar station.
The Duga over-the-horizon radar station (OGRLS) is an object whose main purpose is to detect intercontinental ballistic missiles that will fly to the territory in the area of three kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Outwardly, it is a pile of very tall antennas that caught radars of approaching objects. The station was super secret, and the map of Pripyat is silent about such a large-scale construction close to the city. ZGRLS performed an important strategic function, even the map of Ukraine does not know about it, Pripyat disguised “Duga” as a children’s summer camp.
It is interesting that in the USSR there were only three such missile-detecting complexes: in addition to “Duga”, also near Nikolaev (it was called “Duga-N”) and in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. “Duga” has been preserved, albeit in ruins, only near the city of Pripyat; the map, however, still does not indicate this object. Interestingly, because of the constant characteristic knocking, “Dugu” was called “Russian woodpecker”.
Chernobyl-2 object
This is a super small town near Duga for the families of station workers. However, no matter how small it was, there was a kindergarten, a hospital, and small residential buildings there. Chernobyl-2, like Duga, was classified. The city still exists in an abandoned state today.
Anti-aircraft missile system S-75 "Volkhov". It seems that all the secret objects of the Ukrainian SSR were “stuffed” into a map of the city of Pripyat and its environs. S-75 objects are a popular weapon in the Union and are still used today.
It is impossible to say for certain whether the weapons map of Ukraine included the Pripyat fortifications. On the territory there were barracks, canteens, all military palaces and observation platforms. They remain to this day. Naturally, there are no more missiles.
No one has ever seen the Volkhov missile. This is a secret object that was located in a forest area, a couple of kilometers from Pripyat. Its task is to provide air defense for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and Duga.
The most famous “monument” of the missile complex is a now abandoned bunker. It is believed that ammunition was stored there. It is located next to all the buildings of the S-75 complex in a forest area near Pripyat.
Map of Pripyat in detail
The city of Pripyat on the map of the country is a very popular place for excursion groups, stalkers and scientific researchers. But the map of Pripyat today is a rather vague thing, because... some objects that existed previously have long been erased from the face of the Earth, and no one records new, recently discovered finds that were previously classified.
Therefore, it is theoretically impossible to indicate the exact location of “Duga” or “Volkhov”; no one counted the kilometers to these places. The same thing happens with abandoned villages. Some especially small ones completely collapsed, while others, on the contrary, became populated by self-settlers and found a “second wind”.
In addition to self-settlers, the territory of Pripyat is occupied by looters who are still exporting scrap metal, and drug addicts who are trying to grow drugs near the city. There are also homeless people who, out of desperation, occupy old apartments and houses of residents - among them there are many escaped criminals, who are caught by law enforcement agencies from time to time.
Due to the proximity of forested areas, Pripyat has become a favorite place for many wild animals that roam around the ruins of the city. Of course, often due to the large amount of radiation that fell on their heads, but it’s already good that they did not die out completely.
Other objects on the map of Pripyat
On the territory of the Exclusion Zone, in addition to Pripyat and Chernobyl, there are several other fairly large abandoned objects. For example:
The village of Novoshepelichi. Until 1986, the village residents were mainly engaged in cattle breeding. The population before the evacuation was slightly less than two thousand people. The village is notable for the fact that there for a long time lived the most famous self-settlers - heroes of many documentaries– Savva Gavrilovich and his wife. The couple became something of a symbol of the Exclusion Zone.
The village of Polesskoe. A very old village, in which only 11 thousand people lived at the time of the accident. Today, about 50 self-settlers live there and, interestingly, the only fire station in the area operates.
Village Kopachi. This settlement was located a couple of kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Therefore, he suffered especially severely from radiation. Kopachi is interesting because all the objects of the village were completely buried, that is, dug into the ground. Only the building remains kindergarten, and then pretty worn out by time.
There really is something to see in Pripyat - come!
In the third part of our cartographic collection, the chapter will be replenished with a collection of modern maps of the Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl and Pripyat. It will include scanned copies of Soviet-era and modern publications.
In the small picture below, use the “magnifying glass” - just point at Right place mouse, and a scaled fragment will appear on the right.
The first map presented in this section is called “Reclamation systems of the Exclusion Zone.” It is informative in its own way. For example, it is clearly visible where is Chernobyl and Pripyat on the map regarding problematic radioactively contaminated areas, and those that have a high chance of rehabilitation.
If you carefully study the explanations and compare them with maps of contamination of the Chernobyl zone with radionuclides, then under the scientific formulation “protected areas” the most dangerous zones are hidden.
The map of Chernobyl and Pripyat can be downloaded, simply by right-clicking the file on HDD. When viewing locally, the scale will be larger - similar to the “magnifying glass” mode in the first picture.
But below is an equally interesting find. Legal Chernobyl map on a scale of 500 meters - this is even more accurate than army kilometers. The cartographic basis of the map is from 2002, edits and publication around 2007. A detailed comparison with the real relief shows that the actual basis is older, the detailing has not been done for a long time and does not correspond to the stated dates.
But if you analyze, for example, kilometer maps before the accident (1985) and after (1991), you can already see differences in the details of the Pripyat River, its channels, creeks, and marshy areas. Unfortunately, later maps with high detail are not available, with rare exceptions.
For a quarter of a century after the Chernobyl accident, the riverbed Pripyat River and the tributaries dependent on it have significantly changed their relief. The reason for this, in addition to the natural passage of time, is the pit-traps dug immediately after the accident in the bottom of the rivers to prevent the flow of silt downstream into the Kiev reservoir. Over a quarter of a century, some of these traps turned into islands, in some places blocking small channels. Which in turn clogged them: some dried up, others became lakes. And it’s just that the swampy area expanded its borders without human influence.
The chapter will be added with new maps, the search for interesting materials continues.
Previous materials
This zone attracts not only tourists who come here for short excursions, but also stalkers who spend a lot of time here and travel through abandoned cities and villages.
A photo report with the story of one of the stalkers will tell you how stalkers spend their time in the exclusion zone.
Under the waning moon we walked through the thick summer air, infused with the aromas of field herbs. In the cool of the night he walks easily. Various night creatures scurrying in the bushes periodically stalk.
After a short stop and replenishing water supplies from a nearby swamp, we forded the Uzh River. 
After meandering through the fields, we came to the ruins of a church and decided to spend the night in an abandoned village; our strength was running low after the night in the fields. 
We found a perfectly preserved hut in the village and decided that it would shelter us. In the morning we laid out our belongings and began to have breakfast while the dosimeter peacefully crackled. 
It was impossible to go during daylight hours. We used the day to have a good rest and replenish our water supplies. We had a lot of walks around the beautiful nature and abandoned village. There are ruins in the village Orthodox Church, the local priests seem to be keeping an eye on it and installed metal-plastic windows in the room with the altar (!), it looks wild in these parts. 
There was a long and difficult journey at night. We crashed through the forests along the paths of wild animals, scratched under high-voltage lines, and by dawn we reached the outskirts of Pripyat. 
A checkpoint of an abandoned city with traces of a stalker's camp. The forest between the checkpoint and the Jupiter plant made a very depressing impression on me. Scattered among the trees are the remains of radioactive equipment, which glow so much that even the looters did not bother to cut them into metal. 
We have breakfast on the roof overlooking the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and go to bed. It is not safe to walk during the day; you can run into a police patrol. 
In the morning and at night we saw another stalker group and later met friends with whom we periodically crossed paths right up to the exit from the zone. We met, drank moonshine with lard and garlic in a luxurious apartment and went for a walk around the city at night.
Stained glass window of the Pripyat cafe near the pond. 
On the far shore of the pond there are huge abandoned port cranes, 30 meters high. Against the background of the starry sky, they looked like equipment from Star Wars. 
In the rays of dawn, we quietly made our way through some radioactive burial grounds to the oil depot to photograph the ISU-152 - a self-propelled artillery unit from the time of the last world war, which rests behind the fence of the residential part of the oil depot. Now I won’t confuse the smell of a radioactive garbage dump with anything else. 
126 medical unit in the basement of which is one of the dirtiest places in the zone. In a small room lie the belongings of firefighters who received doses of radiation several times higher than lethal and are still glowing wildly. I have often thought about the dedication of the people who cleaned up the consequences of the radioactive disaster. I watched a lot of old videos, and there people really realized what they were doing, that they were sacrificing themselves for the sake of others - this is very... It is important when the conditions in which people grew up make them capable of such actions for the sake of others. 
Abortion magazine. There was no sex in the Soviet Union, but there were abortions. 
Shoes on a shelf in a kindergarten. It’s hard to imagine a darker place. 
Traditional sunset on the roof of a 16-story building with a hookah and our new friends. From here you have a beautiful view of the city. 
View of the fifth microdistrict at night. The ghostly nine-story panel buildings, like gnawed animal bones, reflect the pale moonlight. 
One of the strongest places is the two chairs on the roof, which one of the stalkers brought there. We stuck there for many hours, smoking hookah, looking at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the density of the starry sky and the ghost town where nocturnal animals roamed around the overgrown streets. 
Ferris wheel in an amusement park. 
Ferris wheel in the center of Pripyat. Against the background of the starry sky, it can only be seen illegally. 
We met the dawn on the roof of a sixteen-story building with a coat of arms. The coat of arms interested me very much; I had never seen anything like it anywhere else. 
I fell asleep without waiting for dawn. 
They say that sometimes these letters on the roof of the building are rearranged by stalkers and the local police organize a wild riot throughout the city about this. 
Swimming pool of school No. 3. 
Some places in the city are specially furnished with very high quality for excursion photography, like this room with gas masks. 
A fresco at the post office, we went to take a couple of shots, a long road through the night forests awaits us. 
Entering the dark zone after the red forest, somewhere very close we heard the polyphonic howl of a large pack of wolves. It was scary, because they were howling right on course, we gathered our point into a fist and, getting ready to break through, we moved forward. I kept firecrackers with me in the hope that in a critical situation the loud bangs would scare away predators. Everything worked out well and closer to morning we arrived at a trolleybus abandoned by someone in the middle of a field. This is a popular stalker base, here we drank tea and had a snack. This place seemed to me somewhat similar to the bus from the movie "In wild conditions", where he spent his last days main character. 
Stalker's shelter. We caught up with our friends not far from Chernobyl-2. 
A long and gloomy corridor between the antennas and the military camp. 
Closer to sunset, we climbed onto the Duga-1 radar station, an abandoned huge antenna, towering 150 meters above the forests of the zone. Obiwan reached for the resonator. There was a wind, he swayed and swayed, but he simply gathered his balls into his fist and walked along the pipe at a height of a hundred meters. 
The higher we rose, the stronger the wind became and with it a special almost ultrasonic “Ringing”. The wind whistled through millions of steel cables and antenna resonators, singing a brain-burning song. 
From the top we looked after the setting sun and observed columns of smoke. Somewhere far away the forest was burning. Stalkers say that the current authorities are deliberately burning forests, pushing through some kind of bill to divide the zone and shrink it next year from 30 to 10 kilometers. 
Another creepy story. In an abandoned military town there is a room with dead wolves. It is not clear how they got there, but the walls of the room are scratched from the inside by paws and there are two mummies on the floor. 
And then there was a long road home. The zone for me is an endless starry sky, open space. 
While passing under the power lines, we saw that a tree had fallen on the wires. It smoldered, pulled the wires and could cause a fire. Going into the foresters’ house, we drank tea and left them a note with the exact coordinates of the accident. 
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Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Winding lines, rounded relief peninsulas in a vast red spot... This is exactly what the exclusion zone and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant look like on the map today. Going back several decades, you can become an unwitting witness to the tragic events that captured not a single kilometer of fertile lands in their destructive whirlwind. It was the tragedy of 1986 nuclear power plant became the culprit that the map of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is today considered as a territory contaminated with radiation.
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on Google map
On the wide and deep Pripyat River, flowing into the cool waters of the Dnieper, rises the energy treasury of the USSR. We are talking about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant began its history in 1970, with the start of construction. The authorities planned to turn this station into a great power that could put the USSR in first place in this industry among other states. Therefore, enormous efforts and labor reserves were expended to implement the project. They even erected a modern city European, by those standards, model. For many, this city has become their home.
The city where the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located
However, the map of the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which soon appeared in the Soviet Union, can only indicate that not everything in the state was perfect. Young Pripyat, a strong nuclear city, like many others settlements, fell into the territorial outlines of the map of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. After all, the design and layout of the station did not live up to expectations. And a modern reactor of a new type became a death sentence for Ukraine and its neighboring states.
Exclusion zone on the Yandex map
Map of contamination of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Not a single century of human existence on Earth has been without mistakes, which, unfortunately, are not always possible to correct. Every now and then, taking the wrong steps, a person imperceptibly replenishes the treasury of his failures. When there is absolutely no space left, the irreparable happens - something that sobers you up again, makes you stop and look back.
