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RADIATION DANGER: Welcome to the exclusion zone

Pripyat was a city of happy people. However, the happy life of an ideal city was interrupted on April 26, 1986. The city

Pripyat is a ghostly atomic city

The Soviet leadership tried to hide the consequences of the explosion of the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant not

Chernobyl: “They were called “white suicide bombers”. None of them survived … ”

On April 26, 1986, the largest man-made accident in the history of mankind took place in Chernobyl. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl

Chernobyl: the first shot of the last war

The Chernobyl tragedy of 1986 is one of the most significant events in the world. She radically influenced the course of the further

M. Gorbachev: the Chernobyl accident gave rise to environmental nationalism

Mikhail Gorbachev first visited the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on February 23, 1989, almost three years after the disaster. He never explained why

Chernobyl firefighters: to stop … to disconnect … to eliminate … to save …

The whole world knows about the feat of the Chernobyl firefighters. They, as it should be, were the first to arrive at the

Chernobyl as a diagnosis

Paraphrasing a well-known expression, we can claim: “Chernobyl has a beginning, Chernobyl has no end”. We still feel the consequences of the tragedy

Moscow or Kiev: who is responsible for Chernobyl?

Since the construction of the ChNPP, the frequent visits of representatives of the State Security Committee to the facility under construction have almost

Corruption Zone: who needs Chernobyl forests?

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is 260,000 hectares of land, 70% of which are forests. Clearing and selling them has long been a business,

The 216th radio call sign: Chernobyl suicide crew

“… 34 years have passed since the Chernobyl disaster. This fall, 75 years will pass since the end of World War II… Both