Poliske

Poliske (Ukrainian Поліське; Russian Полесское / Poleskoye ), formerly Chabne or more rarely Habne, is an urban-type settlement in the northeast of Kiev Oblast ( on the border of Zhytomyr Oblast ) formerly with 12,000 inhabitants (1981: 10,600 ). The town lies on the River Usch, a tributary of the Pripyat.

Poliske was the end of April 1986 directly affected by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant; due to the first fallout of unexploded power plant, who moved in the direction Poliske, the city was heavily contaminated.

History

Was first documented Poliske in 1415 under the name Chabne. In 1667 it fell to Poland, and after the Second Partition of Poland it came together with the whole right bank Ukraine to Russia. Since 1918, Soviet, Chabne received in 1938 the status of an urban-type settlement. In 1958 it was renamed Poliske.

Repopulation experiments

To try to save the city after the Chernobyl disaster, it was decided to decontaminate the most frequented buildings, squares and streets. A few buildings were completely demolished and rebuilt, replaced water pipes and renewed asphalt pavements of many streets.

Through this effort, although the contamination of the city could be reduced, but not below a tolerable level for the residents. As a result, the area was soon abandoned by the inhabitants. Today the ionizing radiation in the city is about 20 to 50 uR / h (compared to a big city like Moscow has about 20 to 25 uR / h, a radiation of 500 X distributed over five hours effective immediately fatal to a human, right after the accident at Chernobyl, the radiation was about 3,000 R / h = 3 billion uR / h).

Over time, the radioactivity decreased in Poliske to a level that some people consider to stay again in the city. The end of 2006 the city had about 20 inhabitants, and rising (2005: 10 Ew. ).

Poliske is an example of that part of the less contaminated area as residential areas are ( is in the core area within a radius of 30 kilometers around the Chernobyl a permanent settlement only in an average of 600 to 1000 years again be slowly but surely possible. Recent traces of the accident will be gone in about 48,000 years. )

In more remote, less contaminated areas, it is considered important to settle the now habitable again faces again, since the Chernobyl meltdown in wide parts of the country were made uninhabitable ( for example, were in the neighboring country of Belarus about 20 % of the total state area contaminated)

Economy, culture, education

Prior to the evacuation of the village dominated Poliske mainly textile and furniture industries and agricultural equipment. The town was home to six general and two professional schools, the music and sports school. Local cultural institutions were four houses of culture, clubs, a cinema and four libraries.