Editing Chernobyl (section)

===Soviet era (1920–1991)===
[[Ukrainian People's Republic|Ukrainians]] and [[Bolsheviks]] fought over the city in the ensuing [[Ukraine after the Russian Revolution|Civil War]]. In the [[Polish–Soviet War]] of 1919–20, Chernobyl [[Battle of Czarnobyl (1920)|was taken first by the Polish Army]] and then by the cavalry of the [[Red Army]]. From 1921 onwards, it was officially incorporated into the [[Ukrainian SSR]].<ref name="ND"/>

====Holodomor====
Between 1929 and 1933, Chernobyl suffered from killings during [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]'s [[Collectivization in the Soviet Union|collectivization]] campaign. It was also affected by the [[Holodomor|famine]] that resulted from Stalin's policies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm|title=Genocide in the 20th Century: Stalin's Forced Famine 1932–33|website=www.historyplace.com|access-date=16 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224182059/http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm|archive-date=24 December 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The Polish and German community of Chernobyl was deported to [[Kazakhstan]] in 1936, during the [[Frontier Clearances]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet heartland|last=Brown|first=Kate|date=2004|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0674011686|location=Cambridge, Mass.|oclc=52727650}}</ref>

====World War II and the Holocaust====
During [[World War II]], Chernobyl was occupied by the [[Wehrmacht|German Army]] from 25 August 1941 to 17 November 1943. When the Germans arrived, only 400 Jews remained in Chernobyl;<ref>{{Cite book |last= Plokhy |first= Serhii |authorlink= Serhii Plokhy |year= 2018 |title= Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe |location= New York|publisher= [[Basic Books]] |isbn= 978-1-541-61709-4 |pages=28–29}}</ref> they were murdered during the [[Holocaust]].<ref name="ND" />

====Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant====
In 1972, the Duga-1 radio receiver, part of the larger [[Duga radar|Duga]] [[over-the-horizon radar]] array, began construction {{convert|11|km|mi|abbr=on}} west-northwest of Chernobyl. It was the origin of the Russian Woodpecker and was designed as part of an [[anti-ballistic missile]] [[early-warning radar]] network.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Pavlo |last=Fedykovych|title=Duga radar: Enormous abandoned antenna hidden in forests near Chernobyl|url=https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/duga-radar-chernobyl-ukraine/index.html|access-date=17 April 2021|website=CNN|date=March 2019 |language=en|archive-date=27 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627082623/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/duga-radar-chernobyl-ukraine/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 15 August 1972, the [[Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] (officially the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant) began construction about {{convert|15|km|mi|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Marc |last=Lallanilla. |url=https://www.livescience.com/39961-chernobyl.html |title=Chernobyl: Facts About the Nuclear Disaster |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419013251/https://www.livescience.com/39961-chernobyl.html |archive-date=19 April 2019 |website=Live Science |access-date=20 June 2019 |date=25 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.oecd-nea.org/rp/chernobyl/c01.html |title=Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impact (2002 Update of 'Chernobyl: 10 Years On) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021215100/https://www.oecd-nea.org/rp/chernobyl/c01.html |archive-date=21 October 2020 |author=Nuclear Energy Agency |year=2002 |isbn=92-64-18487-2}}</ref> northwest of Chernobyl. The plant was built alongside [[Pripyat]], an "[[atomograd]]" city founded on 4 February 1970 that was intended to serve the nuclear power plant. The decision to build the power plant was adopted by the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] and the [[Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union]] on recommendations of the [[DerzhPlan|State Planning Committee]] that the Ukrainian SSR be its location. It was the first nuclear power plant to be built in Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chernobyl Accident 1986 |publisher=World Nuclear Association |url=https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/chernobyl-accident.aspx |access-date=2022-09-16 |website=world-nuclear.org}}</ref>

====26 April 1986: Chernobyl disaster====
After the [[Chernobyl disaster|nuclear disaster]] at the [[Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]]; the worst nuclear disaster in history, the city of Chernobyl was evacuated on 5 May 1986.  Along with the residents of the nearby city of [[Pripyat]], built as a home for the plant's workers, the population was relocated to the newly built city of [[Slavutych]]. While Pripyat remains completely abandoned with no remaining inhabitants, Chernobyl has since hosted a small population.