Dytiatky (, also spelled Dytyatky) is a Ukrainian village in

Vyshhorod Raion Vyshhorod Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Vyshhorod. It has a population of On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast w ...

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast (, ), also called Kyivshchyna (, ), is an Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, which is administered as a city with special sta ...

. It belongs to

Ivankiv settlement hromada Ivankiv settlement hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Ivankiv. It has an area of and a population of 28,798, as of 2020. The hromada includes 81 settlements: 1 t ...

, one of the

hromada In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...

s of Ukraine. As of 2001, Dytiatky had a population of 571.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1864. On 25 August 1941, it was occupied by

Nazi German Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

troops, and the population that left the occupied area subsequently resisted the German army. 154 villagers received Soviet orders and medals. The village was part of the former

Chernobyl Raion Chernobyl Raion () or Chornobyl Raion () was a raion in the Soviet Union located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was one of 26 administrative raions (districts) of Kyiv Oblast in northern Ukraine. After the Chernobyl disaster, the ...

until 1988, when it was disestablished after the 1986 nuclear accident, and was one of the few villages in the raion that remained outside the

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, also called the 30-Kilometre Zone or simply The Zone, was established shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. Initially, Soviet authorities declar ...

. Until 18 July 2020, Dytiatky belonged to

Ivankiv Raion Ivankiv Raion () was a raion (district) of Kyiv Oblast in Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Ivankiv. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the numb ...

. The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of

to seven. The area of Ivankiv Raion was merged into

. From February to April 2022, Dytiatky was occupied by Russia as a result of the 2022 invasion.

Geography

Dytiatky is located between

Ivankiv Ivankiv ( ) is a rural settlement in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It is situated on the left bank of the Teteriv River. Ivankiv hosts the administration of Ivankiv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its po ...

() and

Chernobyl Chernobyl, officially called Chornobyl, is a partially abandoned city in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is located within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, to the north of Kyiv and to the southwest of Gomel in neighbouring Belarus. ...

(), on a branch of the P02 road. It is the seat of one of the busiest checkpoints ( - KPP Dytyatky) to the

, being on the main tourist route to the area and the

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, northwest of the city of Chernobyl, from the Belarus–Ukraine border, a ...

(). The village is from Hornostaipil, from

Pripyat Pripyat, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby river, Pripyat (river), Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1970 as the ninth ''atomgrad'' ...

and from

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

. It is the seat of the homonym rural council, that includes the villages of Fruzynivka and Zoryn, has an area of and a population of 1,011.Dytiatky Rural Council
on

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...

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{{Chernobyl disaster Villages in Vyshhorod Raion Villages in Chornobyl Raion Populated places established in 1864 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

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