Chernobyl 30 years later: pictures of cities frozen in time

Chernobyl city

So now it looks like Chernobyl. Here live workers of the Chernobyl NPP, who are building and storing a protective sarcophagus. Experts say that 95% of the radioactive fuel remains in the destroyed reactor. Despite the danger, some Chernobylans return to their native land. They are called self-travelers. These people are not afraid of radiation. They grow up vegetable gardens and do not cease to believe that their city will be the same. But most of the Chernobyl houses became ghosts. Through them trees grow, windows are broken, doors open. It searches up the creepy ... It seems that the Pripyat River has frozen in time. And she's beautiful! The waters of Pripyat are teeming with fish.

City of Pripyat

It was built 2 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for the convenience of workers and their families - so that everything was close. At the time of the accident, the population was almost 50 thousand people. Now there's no soul. The visiting card of the ghost town is an amusement park, which was never destined to open. Forever frozen ferris wheel, cars on the circuit, swings-ships ...

Village Red

Located 8 km from the Chernobyl NPP. Here there were 800 yards and a huge church - one for all. The Archangel Michael temple was built in 1800. And he survived! True, there were almost no icons inside: everything was looted. Several times a year, Father Sergius arrives from Chernobyl to the ancient church and conducts divine services.

The zone of alienation will remain a zone for a long time. Especially its central part. In Chernobyl, Pripyat, the nearest villages of radiation so many that nature needs thousands of years to purify from a peaceful atom.