And from 1983 he lived with his mother (Lyubov Sirota) in the new city of Pripyat (the satellite of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant — only 1,5 kilometers distant), where he studied in the school № 1 to April 26, 1986 before the Chernobyl catastrophe.
Located on the southern bank of the Prypiat and at the Kobryn-Kovel road, it is close to the modern borders with Poland and Ukraine.
It contains tales about an abandoned Ukrainian city (Prypiat), the first dog in space (Laika), Yuri Gagarin’s very own postcode (Moscow 705) and a private seaside in Sweden (Amine).
Polesian Lowland is a lowland in the southwestern portion of the East European Plain in basin of such rivers as Dnieper, Prypiat, Desna and stretches along the Belarus-Ukraine border.