Chernobyl Raion

Chernobyl Raion Чорнобильський район Chornobyl Raion
Raion of Kyiv Oblast
1923–1988
Chernobyl Raion on the map of Kyiv Oblast. The exclusion zone is marked as grey.
The former Chernobyl Raion (green) was placed under the Ivankiv Raion (yellow). The yellow dot represents the city of Pripyat, autonomous since 1980
Capital	Chernobyl
Area
• Coordinates	51°16′N 30°13′E / 51.267°N 30.217°E / 51.267; 30.217
• 1984[1]	2,000 km2 (770 sq mi)
Population
• 1984[1]	44,000
History
• Established	1923
• Merged into Ivankiv Raion	16 November 1988
Political subdivisions	1 municipality 23 rural councils
Preceded by Succeeded by Chernobyl uezd Radomysl uezd Ivankiv Raion
Today part of	Vyshhorod Raion

Chernobyl Raion (Russian: Чернобыльский район, romanized: Chernobyl'skiy rayon) or Chornobyl Raion (Ukrainian: Чорнобильський район, romanized: Chornobylskyi raion) was a raion in the Soviet Union located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was one of 26 administrative raions (districts) of Kyiv Oblast in northern Ukraine. After the Chernobyl disaster, the majority of the raion was contaminated, and many of its populated places were included into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which is an officially designated exclusion area around the site of the disaster.^[2]