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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

CHERNOBYL - WHAT PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND - Pictures on the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster - Former residents return to take a look

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 Photographer Alina Rudya is pictured on the terrace on the top of the Polissya restaurant. She said her father took her mother on a date here when she came to visit him for the first time

  • Photographer  Alina Rudya, who now lives in Berlin, Germany, was only one-year-old when she was forced to leave Prypyat following the meltdown, which spewed deadly clouds of atomic material into the atmosphere.
  • Her picture project, called Prypat mon Amour, shares emotional stories of evacuees and shows them revisiting the eerily empty town. 
  • Not all the pictures shown on this page are by Alina Rudya.  Some of them are from reporters visiting the area. 
 Continue reading and see additional images

 Other pictures show stray cats and dogs wandering around the empty Soviet-era town next to buildings that have been almost completely taken over by trees and undergrowth over the last 30 years

  • These eerie pictures show the abandoned homes, rusting fairground attractions and overgrown infrastructure among the ruins of a Ukrainian community less than two miles from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
  • Images include dolls fitted with gas masks lying among the rusting beds of a nursery in the town of Pripyat near Ukraine's northern border with Belarus.
  • Others show stray cats and dogs wandering around the empty Soviet-era town next to buildings that have been almost completely taken over by trees and undergrowth over the last 30 years.
  • They also show radioactive warning signs, abandoned tower blocks and a crumbling amusement park with dodgems and a Ferris wheel creaking in the wind.
  • Once a bustling home to 50,000 residents, the town was built less than two miles from the country’s first nuclear power plant to house scientists and workers serving the plant, and security troops.
  • Tragedy struck on April 26 1986, as one of the reactors deep inside the Chernobyl power plant went into meltdown, sparking the world’s worst nuclear disaster and sending radioactive particles into the air. 
  • It wasn't until the next day that the government realised the extent of the disaster, and ordered an evacuation of citizens. 
  • Despite the stark, barren sights, tourists are flocking in increasing numbers to the Ukrainian disaster site, although the zone is still classed as uninhabitable.

 Creepy: Two bumper cars lie face to face in the rusting remains of an amusement park in the abandoned town of Pripyat near Chernobyl

Road to nowhere: Once a bustling home to 50,000 residents, the town was built less than two miles from the country’s first nuclear power plant to house scientists and workers serving the plant, and security troops


 Running wild: Pictures show radioactive warning signs, abandoned tower blocks and a crumbling amusement park

 Echoes from the past: A Ferris Wheel is seen in the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine

 Ruins: The inside of one of the many abandoned houses now becoming increasingly hidden in the undergrowth growing up around the town

 Concealed: Despite the stark, barren sights, tourists are flocking in increasing numbers to the Ukrainian disaster site, although the zone is still classed as uninhabitable

 A child's cot lies abandoned in a house in the abandoned town. Many items were simply left behind as people fled from the area

 Shattered: Windows are smashed and trees and plants growing up around many of the abandoned homes around Zalesye near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

 Eerie: Images include toys fitted with children's gas masks discarded among the rusting beds of a nursery in the town of Pripyat near Ukraine's northern border with Belarus

From 1980 to 1986, this woman, known only as Lydia lived in Prypyat, where she worked at the Energetik Palace of Culture. She is pictured revisiting her work place
The Energetik Palace of Culture. 
 
 Tumble-down: A house is seen in the abandoned village of Zalesye near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine

 Huge tower blocks built for those working at the Chernobyl plant remain abandoned in the Soviet-era town of Pripyat

Another resident, Olexiy, is pictured at a swimming pool called Azure. He had taken a course at the swimming baths to become a diving instructor - but never finished because of the disaster
What is left of the swimming pool

 The coat of arms of the former Soviet Union is seen on the roof of a block of flats behind trees and other abandoned buildings



 Lydia gave birth to her daughter Valentina in this hospital in Prypyat. The pair are pictured together in the ruins of the hospital's waiting room
 This was the hospital

 Pictures show some of the empty apartments in Prypyat. Former resident 'Viktor' said he once lived on the 14th floor of one of the buildings. He came to live in Prypyat and worked at Chernobyl as an engineer in the research department

Sources
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3559483/Returning-Chernobyl-30-years-fled-deadly-radiation-leak-Haunting-pictures-evacuees-revisiting-homes-places-grew-up.html
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3513921/Dolls-fitted-gas-masks-rusting-fairground-stray-animals-wandering-streets-Eerie-pictures-abandoned-Soviet-town-30-years-Chernobyl-disaster.html


 
RELATED

Other research groups working within the area have found that endangered Przewalski's horses (pictured with camera trap by the TREE project) – released into the exclusion zone in the 1990s – may be breeding successfully30 YEARS SINCE THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER

- ANIMALS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY RECLAIMED THE RADIOACTIVE LANDS but the Ukrainian government wants to use the area as a nuclear waste dump

 - Meantime, have a glimpse of life after people. This is the way life would reclaim the planet if people were no longer around
 
READ MORE AND SEE IMAGES
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2016/04/30-years-since-chernobyl-disaster.html


 
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