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Pripyat: the city that was evacuated in a day
Forty-nine thousand people, one afternoon, and a city that has been empty ever since.
Region · Ukraine
Abandoned Ukraine
Pripyat and the Exclusion Zone. Ukraine's most famous abandonment was sudden, forced and total — and it is still being studied today.
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