Chernobyl. Life in the zone of radiation apocalypse
Chernobyl is a town in northern Ukraine. It is situated on the river Pripyat. Ukraine Chernobyl
Chernobyl is famous for the great disaster that happened in 1986
In 1970 a power plant was built near Chernobyl. Power plant workers lived in Pripyat, a town which was bigger than Chernobyl
Almost people lived in Pripyat. On April, people left the town because of the explosion at the Power Plant
In 1986 many people went to Pripyat to rescue the Power Plant. Many of them got medals for this. Some people got so much radiation that they died.
There are monuments to those brave and powerful people all over Russia and Ukraine Chernobyl Dnepropetrovsk Belgorod Omsk Simferopol Tver Bryansk Nizhniy Novgorod Kiev
After the disaster the territory around the Power Plant became radioactive. People cant live there, that is why the territory is deserted. Today buildings in the radiation zone are empty.
Last year some tourist companies in Ukraine started to offer tours to Chernobyl and Pripyat. Tourists come there in order to see the deserted places and the Power Plant with the containment that covers its ruined part.
And would you like to be a tourist to the radiation zone?