Opachychi

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Opachychi (Ukrainian: Опачичі) was a village in Ivankivskyi Raion of Kiev Oblast, Ukraine, located south-east of Chernobyl (Ukrainian: Chornobyl).

The village is infamous for being an outlying area within the Chernobyl accident exclusion zone. Permanent population has been evacuated following the accident, and officially the village has been liquidated (i.e. excluded from the list of settlements of Kiev Oblast) in 1999. However, despite radioactive contamination few residents have returned to live there, and as of 03-28-2006 the current population is 19.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Stone, Richard. "The Long Shadow of Chernobyl", National Geographic, 2006-03-28, pp. 21. Retrieved on 2006-03-28. 
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