Poliske
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| Oblast : | Kiev Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Poliske district | ||
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| Residents : | 20 (2006) | ||
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| Geographic location : | 51 ° 15 ' N , 29 ° 23' E | ||
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Poliske ( Ukrainian Поліське ; Russian Полесское Polesskoje ) - formerly Хабне Chabne , was an urban-type settlement in the northwest of Kiev Oblast on the border with Zhytomyr Oblast with a former population of 12,000 (1981: 10,600). The place lies on the river Ush , a tributary of the Pripyat .
Poliske was directly affected by the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant at the end of April 1986 ; due to the first radioactive fallout from the detonated power plant, which moved towards Poliske, the city was heavily contaminated.
history
Poliske was first mentioned in a document in 1415 under the name Chabne. In 1667 it fell to Poland, and after the Second Partition of Poland it came to Russia along with all of the right-bank Ukraine . Soviet since 1918 , Chabne received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1938, since 1934 it was named Kahanowytschi Perschi ( Кагановичі Перші ), after the Soviet politician Lasar Moiseyevich Kaganowitsch . In 1958 it was renamed Poliske.
Repopulation attempts
In an attempt to save the city after the Chernobyl disaster, it was decided to decontaminate the most haunted buildings, squares and streets . For this purpose, some buildings were completely demolished and rebuilt, water pipes replaced and asphalt paving of many streets renewed.
Through this effort, the contamination of the city could be reduced, but not below an acceptable level for the residents. Because of this, the area was abandoned by the residents. Today, the ionizing radiation is in the town of about 20 to 50 μ R / h (in comparison, a large city like Moscow has / h approximately 20 to 25 uR, a radiation of 500 X-ray distributed hours to 5 hours is immediately effective for a human fatal, directly after the accident at the Chernobyl power plant , the radiation was around 3,000 R / h = 3 billion µR / h).
Over time, the radioactivity in Poliske has decreased to a level that some people are considering moving back to the city. At the end of 2006 the city had about 20 inhabitants, and the trend is rising (2005: 10 Ew.).
Poliske is an example of the fact that parts of the less heavily contaminated area are slowly but surely becoming suitable as residential areas again (In the core area within 30 kilometers of the Chernobyl power plant, permanent settlement will only be possible again in an average of 600 to 1000 years Traces of the accident will be gone in about 48,000 years.)
In more distant, less contaminated areas, it is considered important to repopulate the areas that are now habitable again, since large parts of the country were made uninhabitable as a result of the GAU in Chornobyl (for example, in neighboring Belarus, around 20% of the total state area was contaminated).
Economy, culture, education
Before the town was evacuated, the textile and furniture industry as well as agricultural technology dominated in Poliske. The place housed six general education and two vocational schools, each with a music and sports school. Local cultural institutions were four houses of culture , clubs, a cinema and four libraries.
Personalities
- Vyacheslav Kyrylenko , Minister of Culture of Ukraine, born in 1968 in Poliske.
