Orbita, Cherkasy Oblast

Orbita (Ukrainian: Орбіта) is a populated place without any particular designation in Cherkasy Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It was originally designed to become a satellite town of a planned nuclear power station. While the construction was officially cancelled before fall of the Soviet Union, it nevertheless has a population of 120.

Orbita

Орбіта
residential neighborhood
Orbita
Coordinates: 49°05.089′N 32°46.209′E
Country
Oblast
Raion
Ukraine
Cherkasy Oblast
Chyhyryn Raion
Population
  Total120

The populated place was built for builders of the Chyhyryn Nuclear Power Plant, but due to the Chernobyl disaster construction was suspended and later ceased. As any other atomgrads of the Soviet Union, the populated place carried a status of closed city. Before the Chernobyl disaster in the prospective city was finished and settled few neighborhoods.

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the semi-finished city was placed in administration of neighboring rural council (village) of Vitove, Chyhyryn Raion (since 2020 Cherkasy Raion).

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