Ivankiv

Visit: sites.google.com for Paranormal News and Information. Josh goes on a dangerous ghost hunting investigation into the radioactive ruins of Prypiat, Ukraine near the Chernobyl nuclear plant and the evidence is later analyzed by Jason and Grant from Ghost Hunters. Prypiat, is an abandoned city in the zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, in the Kiev Oblast (province), near the border with Belarus. The city has a special status within the Kiev Oblast subordinating directly to it, although is located in the Ivankiv Raion (district). The city also is being supervised by the specially assigned ministry as part of the Zone of alienation. Prypiat was founded in 1970 to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers, officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. It was the ninth nuclear-city, "атомоград" (atomograd) in Russian, literally "atom city". Its population had been around 50000 before the accident. Annual growth of population was estimated at around 1500 including 800 new-born citizens and over 500 newcomers from all the corners of the Soviet Union. It was planned that the Prypiat's population should rise up to 78000 in the nearest future. Prypiat had a railroad link to Kiev Yazov station as well as a navigable river nearby.