Novoshepelychi
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Novoshepelychi (; ) was a village near Pripyat, Ukraine, south-west of the Pripyat River basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated, and now lies within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The village has been abandoned since 2013.
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Place details
- Locality
- Прип’ять
- Region
- Київська область
- Country
- Україна
- Population
- 2
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Novoshepelychi
- Settlement.native_name
- Новошепеличі
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Пам'ятник Великій Вітчизняній війні, с. Новошепеличі.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- World War II Memorial in Novoshepelychi
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Kyiv Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Raion
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Novoshepelychi Raion Chernobyl Raion Ivankiv Raion Vyshhorod Raion Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (de facto)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1507
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 1986
- Settlement.population_total
- 0
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ukraine#Ukraine Kyiv Oblast
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Kopachi in Ukraine
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 113
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Ukraine
- Located in
- Ivankiv Raion
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Пам'ятник Великій Вітчизняній війні, с. Новошепеличі.jpg
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- Novoshepelychi
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- WikiProject Ukraine
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Notable people
- References
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Novoshepelychi (; ) was a village near Pripyat, Ukraine, south-west of the Pripyat River basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated, and now lies within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The village has been abandoned since 2013.
== History == In the 11th century a settlement existed in the area, surrounded by a rampart and a moat. L. Pokhylevych suggested that this was the settlement of Shepel (or Shopol), mentioned in the chronicle of 1098.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Novoshepelychi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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