Stroitel Football Club Pripyat (), also known as Budivelnyk Football Club Pripyat () was a Soviet and
Ukrainian football club (team) 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'' ...
,
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 ...
. Founded in the 1970s, it competed only at republican level competitions in Ukraine. Before the
Chernobyl disaster
On 26 April 1986, the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of only ...
the team was playing at a small stadium in Pripyat. In 1986, a new home ground, the
Avanhard Stadium () was built but never used due to the disaster.
History
The team, which name ''Stroitel'' means "builder", was founded in the middle of the 1970s with construction of the
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station along with the atomgrad
Prypiat. Many players of the new club were from the village of
Chystohalivka, south of Prypiat.
[Vasiliy Voityuk (26 April 2023)]
Команда, которую уничтожила чернобыльская катастрофа (The team that was destroyed by the Chernobyl disaster)
isport.ua. The idea for establishment of the team belonged to Vasiliy Kizima, the director of the Construction Administration of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. At first the team was called as Komanda posyolka Pripyat (the Pripyat town team). In 1981 Kizima invited Anatoliy Shepel to coach the team, and the team obtained its first name "Budivelnyk" (Stroitel).
[Viktor Hlukhenkyi (26 April 2025)]
«ЧАЕС тільки будувалася, а ми вже грали в футбол»: ветеран Будівельника Семикопов – про команду із Прип’яті ("The ChNPP was still being built, but we were playing football already", - veteran-player of Budivelnyk Semykopov about the team from Prypiat)
ukrfootball.ua The team was owned by the town of Pripyat, while the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had its own football team, which was called Enerhetyk Prypiat.
[ However, the ChNPP employers played for either team.][
The team competed in district (raion) and regional (oblast) competitions. In 1981, it entered the KFK competition of Ukrainian SSR.][History of FC Stroitel Pripyat]
Please note, at Soviet football league system such republican football competitions (KFK championship) in 1971–1989 were conditionally at fourth tier just below the USSR Championship Vtoraya Liga, yet republican competitions, particularly football KFK, were administered by all 15 union republics individually. Since 1978 every winner of the Ukrainian football competitions among KFK were gaining promotion and obtaining the status of teams of masters.
The club achieved its best result in 1985 by reaching the second place in its group. The team never qualified for the final stage of the competition. In 1981–1983, for three years in the row, Stroitel was awarded the title of the Kyiv Oblast championship champions.
Stroitel was preparing for a cup semi-final against FC Borodyanka on the day of the Chernobyl disaster
On 26 April 1986, the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of only ...
, Saturday 26 April 1986. Following the disaster, some players of Budivelnyk participated in the post-disaster clean-up and became known as "Liquidators" (as liquidators of the Chernobyl disaster results).[ When the city of Pripyat was abandoned after the disaster, the new city of Slavutych was founded near Chernihiv at the end of the same year to replace it. The football club was moved there, changing its name to FC Stroitel Slavutych in 1987. Its activities ceased after the end of 1988 season.][
Players who also worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant were receiving 25 Soviet rubles per game.][ According to Volodymyr Semykopov who played forward for Budivelnyk, the team always used formation 4-4-2.][
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Previous names
* 1977 AES Prypiat[Anblin4ik (4 June 2019)]
Футбол в Припяти. История футбольного клуба «Строитель» (Football in Pripyat. History of Stroitel Football Club)
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* 1978 Enerhiya Prypiat[
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Infrastructure and equipment
The team used balls manufactured by the Hungarian company "Artek", since the balls from the Soviet manufacturers were of poor quality.[
Beside the city central stadium, Avanhard Stadium, that was planned to be officially opened on 1 May 1986 (the ]International Labor Day
International Workers' Day, also called Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of Wage labour, labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every yea ...
, the second most important holiday in the Soviet Union), Prypiat had an indoor arena where footballers were practicing and polishing their skills.[
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Players
Source:[
Mykola Skrypchenko][
Sergei Slyusar (1956)
Anatoly Terendey, goalkeeper, came from Dnipropetrovsk][
Vladimir Igorevich Tyutyunov (10.10.1960)
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Vishnevskiy (05.28.1962)
Wasilij Zubko (1963)
Wiktor Żylin
Stanislav Honcharenko (01.11.1960), Player from 1979 - 1981
]
Head coaches
* 1977 Oleksiy Zhuravlyov[
* 1980–1981 Anatoliy Shepel
* 1982 Viktor Yastrebov][
* 1985–1986 Vladimir Rastorguev
]
Honours
Kyiv Oblast Football Championship
* Winners (1): 1981, 1982, 1983
League and cup history
See also
* FC Slavutych
* List of football clubs in Ukraine
References
External links
Football in Pripyat
* Viktor Hlukhenkyi (26 April 2025)
«ЧАЕС тільки будувалася, а ми вже грали в футбол»: ветеран Будівельника Семикопов – про команду із Прип’яті ("Chernobyk Nuclear Power Plant was still being built, but we already were playing football", – a veteran-player of Budivelnyk Semykopov about the team from Prypiat)
ukrfootball.ua.
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1970s establishments in Ukraine
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Association football clubs disestablished in 1988
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