Chernobyl 30 years later: 23 photos from the ghost town of Pripyat, trapped in the exclusion zone

What is happening in the Chernobyl exclusion zone today and other little-known facts about the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Chernobyl was the largest nuclear disaster in human history. On the morning of April 26, 1986, one of the station's reactors exploded, causing a massive fire and a radioactive cloud. It spread not only over the territory of northern Ukraine and the surrounding Soviet republics, but also over all of Sweden. Chernobyl is now a tourist attraction for all kinds of adventurers looking to explore the Exclusion Zone. Years later, there are still white spots in all this

War in Paradise. The ghost town of Varosha - exclusion zone in Cyprus

Everyone in our country knows about Pripyat - a city abandoned by people after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. But only a few are aware that such a dead settlement exists not only in the forests in the north of Ukraine, but also on the island of Cyprus. We are talking about the Varosha region - once a fashionable Mediterranean resort, which in a matter of days turned into a ghost

Caucasian Pripyat Akarmara: How a paradise village turned into a ghost town in a year

Caucasian Pripyat, a ghost town - whatever they call this strange place, located in the subtropics of Abkhazia. Here, just like in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, trees sprout through the windows and roofs, and in the apartments old things are slowly decaying, abandoned by the owners in a great hurry and with the unfulfilled hope of an early return. Feral piglets, cows and sad dogs roam the streets. So what happened here? Akarmara's fate is very sad and instructive

The first nuclear disaster in the USSR: the exclusion zone, which was silent for more than 30 years

The whole world knows about the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant today, but in the history of the Soviet Union there was another catastrophe that entailed a nuclear explosion. Information about this incident was not disclosed for more than thirty years, people continued to live in the infected zone in the Chelyabinsk region. The fates of the families left to live in the exclusion zone are tragedies about which they prefer to remain silent in official reports

Pripyat in miniature: Why has a prestigious Belarusian sanatorium turned into an exclusion zone?

This abandoned place is called Pripyat in miniature. For almost three decades of its desolation, the Lesnoye health resort near Minsk has turned into a ghost health resort. The fact that the reason for the closure of this institution was the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster is evidenced by a warning sign installed on the approaches about the presence of increased radiation here. But what makes this place even more mysterious is the fact that people left the health resort not at all in 1986, when the Chernobyl accident, but only in the 1990s