Pripyat. The forest grounds.

The disastrous consequences of what was dismissed as a 'routine steam discharge'. Named after the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970 in northern Ukraine. Built to house the employees of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 4 kilometres away it became the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of roughly 49,400 before being evacuated in the days following the nuclear disaster in 1986. Pripyat now lies within the Exclusion zone and remains uninhabited due to the high levels of radiation. Complete series and more info on www.robseverein.com/pripyat