Chernobyl Exclusion Zone pt. I
The Chernobyl exclusion zone consists not only of the well-known city of Prypiat and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It encompasses an area with 30Km of radius with the center being the power plant. This totalizes an area of 2600 square kilometers which covers more than a 120 settlements, farms and cities in both territories of Ukraine and Belarus. All of them had to be evacuated after the disaster and some even destroyed as for example the village of Kopachi, which was completely put down with exception of its Kindergarten that still remains. In this first part we cover the village of Zhalyssia, an abandoned farm, a bit of Chernobyl village and Kopachi’s kindergarten. In 2015 an old lady self-settler who refused to abandon her house in Zhalyssia died of old-age with almost 90 years of age. To visit these places feels like a time-travel back to April 1986. Nature has taken over everything.
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Chernobyl's Angel
Chernobyl village - Chernobyl Exclusion Zone - Reference to angel's playing trumpet on Matthew's revelation in the bible.
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