First mentioned in the 18th century, it was the scene of some bloody battles between 3 and 15 October 1943, during the "
Chernihiv-Pripyat Operation" of the
World War II. Part of the (now defunct)
Chernobyl Raion, ten years after the construction of the nuclear plant in 1970, Yaniv became administratively part of the new adjacent city of
Pripyat, founded in the same year. Immediately after the
Chernobyl disaster, on April 27, 1986, the 100 villagers were completely evacuated and resettled elsewhere, due to the high level of
radioactive contamination. Because of the impossibility of effective
decontamination of most buildings, they were destroyed and buried in 1987. The village, deregistered on April 1, 2003, is included in the "10 Km Zone" of the
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
De jure, it belongs to Pripyat, which didn't lose its status of "
city of regional significance", but is
de facto part of
Vyshhorod Raion. From February to April 2022, Yaniv was
occupied by Russian forces as a result of the
Russian invasion of Ukraine. ==Geography==