Kopachi

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Coordinates: 51°21′04″N 30°07′55″E / 51.351°N 30.132°E / 51.351; 30.132

The site of one of the buried houses in Kopachi

Kopachi was a village near Chernobyl, Ukraine, just south-west of the Pripyat River Basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated and is now within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; and thus has been abandoned since 1986.

After Kopachi village was evacuated by the authorities, as an experiment, had all the houses torn down and buried. This village was the only village suffering this fate as a result of the Chernobyl disaster.[1]

The only traces left of the village today is a series of mounds and a small number of surviving trees which are not part of the local native flora. Each mound contains the remains of one house and is topped by a sign with the international radiation symbol.

References

  1. ↑ "Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape", Robin McKie, The Guardian, accessed 2011-03-27
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