Tarasy Тараси
Abandoned administrative building, 2007
Tarasy Location of Tarasy in Ukraine
Coordinates: 51°15′50″N 29°17′16″E / 51.26389°N 29.28778°E / 51.26389; 29.28778
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kyiv Oblast
Raion	Poliske (to 2020) Vyshhorod (since 2020)
Founded	unknown, about 18th Century
Population
• Total	0
	(ca 630 in 1986)
Area code	+380 4592

Tarasy (Ukrainian: Тараси) is an abandoned settlement and former village in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.

History

The village was founded in the 18th century. After the nuclear disaster of 26 April 1986, it was abandoned. However, in 1999, it was taken out of a registry as it was completely depopulated being located in the Zone of Alienation. Currently nobody lives there.^[1][2]

Tarasy previously belonged to Poliske Raion until was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Poliske Raion was merged into Vyshhorod Raion.^[3][4]

Geography

The village is located along the right bank of Uzh River, 7 km from Poliske (Habne), the former district center, and 22 km from the nearest railway station, at Vilcha. Across the river Tarasy borders with the village of Stupyscha (now part of Motiyky village), Narodytsky Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast.^[5][6]

Gallery

Monument to the village residents who fought and died in World War II.