The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster.

Source: Atlas Obscura

The purpose-built city of Slavutych in northern Ukraine, near the border of Chernihiv and Belarus, was created specifically for the families forced to evacuate the town of Pripyat after the tragedy at Chernobyl, and survivors who worked at the nuclear power plant.

It was the last city the Soviet Union created before its dissolution.

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