Aravichy / Orevichi

Аравічы / Оревичи
Aravichy / Orevichi is located in Belarus
Aravichy / Orevichi
Aravichy / Orevichi
Location of Aravichy in Belarus
Coordinates: 51°35′57″N 29°51′28″E / 51.59917°N 29.85778°E / 51.59917; 29.85778 Coordinates: 51°35′57″N 29°51′28″E / 51.59917°N 29.85778°E / 51.59917; 29.85778
Country Belarus
Voblast Gomel
Raion Khoiniki
Founded16th Century
Population
 • Total0
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code(s)+375 2346
License plate3

Aravichy (Belarusian: Аравічы; Russian: Оревичи, Orevichi), also known as Ariavichy, is an abandoned Belarusian village in Khoiniki District, Gomel Region.

History

Founded in the 16th Century, in 1959 its population was 923, with 222 families. Following the 1986 nuclear disaster of Chernobyl, it was abandoned and, from 1988, included in the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve; a Belarusian nature reserve that adjoins the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

Geography

The village is located by the eastern shore of the Pripyat River, in front of Dzernavichy, between the cities of Pripyat, in Ukraine, and Naroulia. Other near towns are Hoiniki and Brahin.


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