Abandoned ships in a port - Stock-Fotografie

Chernobyl (as transliterated from the Russian: ?????????, Russian pronunciation: [t???rnob?l?]), or Chornobyl (as transliterated from Ukrainian: ?????????, IPA: [t??r?n?b?l?]), was a city in northern Ukraine, in the Kyiv Oblast (province) near the border with Belarus.The city was evacuated in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) north-northwest. The power plant was named after the city, and located within Chornobyl Raion (district), but the city was not the residence of the power plant workers. Together with the power plant construction, Pripyat, a city, which was larger and closer to the power plant, was built to be home for the power plant workers.