Slavutych

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the warship of the same name, see Slawutytsch (U510) .

Slavutych
Славутич
	Slavutych
Basic data
Oblast :	Kiev Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	no information
Area :	20.82 km²
Residents :	25,006 (2016)
Population density :	1,201 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	07100-07199
Area code :	+380 4579
Geographic location :	51 ° 31 '  N , 30 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '14 "  N , 30 ° 45' 25"  E
KOATUU :	3211500000
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Volodymyr Udovychenko
Address:	Центральна площа 7 07 100 м. Славутич
Statistical information
Slavutych

Slavutych ( Ukrainian Славутич ; Russian Славутич Slavutych ), named after an elderly Slavic name ( "Slavic river") of the nearby river Dnepr , is a corporation founded in 1986 small town in the Ukraine with about 25,000 inhabitants (2016). It is located about 12 kilometers from the left bank of the Dnieper, which forms the border between Ukraine and Belarus . The city was rebuilt after the catastrophic accident that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant . It is still shaped today from an economic and social point of view by the nuclear power plant , as it was the place of residence of the workers employed there until the year 2000. Public life in the city is largely financed by the operator of the power plant.

The city is geographically located in the Chernihiv Oblast ( surrounded by the Ripky Rajon ), but administratively belongs to the Kiev Oblast as an exclave .

overview

Apartments in Slavutych

Construction of the city began in 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Life in Slavutych began with the arrival of the first inhabitants in October 1988. The city is regarded as a replacement for the city of Pripyat , which had to be abandoned due to radioactive contamination after the disaster and is now a ghost town . A memorial in the city commemorates the victims of the catastrophe in April 1986.

Slavutytsch became the home of the people who were involved in combating the consequences of the disaster and who had to be resettled in the period afterwards. Accordingly, many victims of the disaster live here with radiation- related health problems , including around 8,000 people who were children at the time of the disaster. In addition, workers and scientists live in the city today, who regularly commute to the exclusion zone around the former reactor for monitoring and maintenance work as well as for scientific purposes . Slavutytsch is connected to the site of the nuclear power plant by a direct railway line that runs through Belarus .

Site plan to illustrate the exclave

One of the eight quarters of Slavutych

A supermarket in the city center

The city is located about 50 kilometers east of the former nuclear power plant and is administratively assigned to the Kiev Oblast , as an exclave in the area of the Chernihiv Oblast . For the construction, the floor was rebuilt to a thickness of two meters. In contrast to some other cities in Ukraine, Slavutytsch is characterized by modern architecture and an attractive living environment as well as a comparatively high standard of living. Workers and architects from the eight former Soviet republics of Lithuania , Latvia , Estonia , Georgia , Azerbaijan , Armenia , Ukraine and Russia were involved in the construction of the city . Slavutytsch has eight sectors, each with its own style and atmosphere. Each of the city's eight kindergartens has an indoor swimming pool. The city has a youth center, a modern community center, an internet café , various sports facilities, modern hospitals and a hotel. Around 80 percent of the apartments were built in the form of four- to six-story houses, and 20 percent in terraced housing estates in the form of single and two-family houses. Today, the city has the lowest average age in all of Ukraine due to high birth rates and low death rates . More than a third of the population are children.

However, since the last units of the nuclear power plant were shut down in 2000, the city has faced major social problems and an uncertain future. Up to this point in time around 9,000 people and thus around half of the adult population were working in the power plant; today around 3,000 workers are still employed in maintenance and monitoring work. Around 85 percent of the city's budget was financed by the operator of the power plant. In order to support the settlement of new companies, Slavutych has been declared a special economic zone by law . Extensive retraining programs are also being financed for the workers affected by the shutdown of the power plant. Despite these measures, more than 1,500 people have already left the city.

Since 1994 Slavutytsch have been friends with the small German town of Mittweida in Saxony .

Population development

Number of inhabitants

year	1989	1992	1998	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Residents	11,364	21,000	26.200	24.402	24.403	24,398	24.365	24.408	24,441	24.391	24,347	24.407	24,492	24.726	24.826	24,952	24,996	25.006	25.096	24.983	24.936

Web links

Commons : Slavutych  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portal of the City (Russian)
• Daniel Wechlin: The dying city of the liquidators. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 22, 2016, p. 50.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Town twinning of the German-Ukrainian Forum eV Accessed on April 3, 2020
2. ↑ Cooperation between Ukraine and the Federal Republic of Germany of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Germany. Retrieved April 3, 2020
3. ↑ Population development in Ukraine. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .