Aravichy

Aravichy / Orevichi Аравічы / Оревичи
Aravichy / Orevichi Location of Aravichy in Belarus
Coordinates: 51°35′57″N 29°51′28″E / 51.59917°N 29.85778°E / 51.59917; 29.85778Coordinates: 51°35′57″N 29°51′28″E / 51.59917°N 29.85778°E / 51.59917; 29.85778
Country	Belarus
Voblast	Gomel
Raion	Khoiniki
Founded	16th Century
Population
• Total	0
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Area code(s)	+375 2346
License plate	3

Aravichy (Belarusian: Аравічы; Russian: Оревичи, Orevichi), also known as Ariavichy, is an abandoned Belarusian village in Khoiniki District, Gomel Region.^[1]

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;^[2] a Belarusian nature reserve that adjoins the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

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.^[1]

Populated places of the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve

Raions¹	Brahin Khoiniki Naroulia

Villages	Aravichy Babchyn Bagushi Buda Chamkou Dzernavichy Haroshkau Kalyban Kaporanka Kazhushki Lomachy Novakukhnaushchyna Novy Pakrousk Pasudava Pirki Rudya

¹Only portions of these raions (large or small) were affected due to the Chernobyl disaster List of places in the CEZ (Ukraine)

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