Chernobyl
Chernobyl or Chornobyl is a town in Central Ukraine, and known infamously for the accident in the nearby nuclear power plant at Pripyat on 26 April 1986. The scale of remediation efforts and subsequent engineering challenges such as construction of the iconic reactor sarcophagus, have drawn the interest of many curious travellers over the following decades. Wikivoyage
Population 1,575 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Ukraine
Getting there
Remembered in this browser only, with the last few you used.
Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide-
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Site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster Monument · 370 m -
Chernobyl Sarcophagus Memorial Memorial · 650 m - Pidgeon of Peace Memorial · 490 m
- Prometheus Memorial · 550 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Markets
Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.
Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.