Tarasy (Ukrainian: Тараси) is an abandoned settlement and former village in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, part of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It was located in Poliske Raion (district).

Tarasy Тараси
Abandoned administrative building, 2007
Tarasy Location of Tarasy in Ukraine
Coordinates: 51°15′50″N 29°17′16″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kyiv Oblast
Raion	Poliske (to 2020) Vyshhorod (since 2020)
Founded	unknown, about 18th Century
Population
• Total	0
	(ca 630 in 1986)
Area code(s)	+380 4592

History

The village was founded in the 18th century. After the nuclear disaster of 26 April 1986, it was abandoned. However in 1999, it was taken out of a registry as it was completely depopulated being located in the Zone of Alienation. Currently nobody lives there.[1][2]

Geography

The village is located along the right bank of Uzh River, 7 km from Poliske (Habne), the former district center, and 22 km from the nearest railway station, at Vilcha. Across the river Tarasy borders with the village of Stupyscha (now part of Motiyky village), Narodytsky Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast.[3][4]

Gallery

Monument to the village residents who fought and died in World War II.

See also

• Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

References

External links

Media related to Tarasy at Wikimedia Commons