The team, which name
Stroitel means "builder", was founded in the middle of the 1970s with construction of the
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station along with the atomgrad
Prypiat. Many players of the new club were from the village of
Chystohalivka, south of Prypiat. The idea for establishment of the team belonged to Vasiliy Kizima, the director of the Construction Administration of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. At first the team was called as Komanda posyolka Pripyat (the Pripyat town team). In 1981 Kizima invited Anatoliy Shepel to coach the team, and the team obtained its first name "Budivelnyk" (Stroitel). The team was owned by the town of Pripyat, while the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had its own football team, which was called Enerhetyk Prypiat. Please note, at Soviet football league system such republican football competitions (KFK championship) in 1971–1989 were conditionally at fourth tier just below the USSR Championship Vtoraya Liga, yet republican competitions, particularly football KFK, were administered by all 15
union republics individually. Since 1978 every winner of the Ukrainian football competitions among KFK were gaining promotion and obtaining the status of teams of masters. The club achieved its best result in 1985 by reaching the second place in its group. The team never qualified for the final stage of the competition. In 1981–1983, for three years in the row, Stroitel was awarded the title of the
Kyiv Oblast championship champions. Stroitel was preparing for a cup semi-final against FC Borodyanka on the day of the
Chernobyl disaster, Saturday 26 April 1986. Following the disaster, some players of Budivelnyk participated in the post-disaster clean-up and became known as "Liquidators" (as liquidators of the Chernobyl disaster results). • 1978 Enerhiya Prypiat ==Infrastructure and equipment==