A special report 08.06.2002 (2002)

The name of the program is "Right to Radiation".

A report on how the so-called "exclusion zone" lives today, about the life of two villages in the Bryansk region.

One of them - "old" Mirny - drags out a sad existence in the Bryansk forests.

The only enterprise is practically not working, power outages, water and heat have become the norm, but the residents are in no hurry to part with the village - after all, only here can they receive "Chernobyl" pensions.

Therefore, they do not move to the new Mirny village, built specifically for the resettlement of the inhabitants of the old village.

As a result, a large community of Old Believers settled in the "new" Mirny, who left the near abroad in an organized manner.

A man hits a metal cylinder with a sledgehammer, driving it into the ground near a village house.

Limanova Tatyana - a correspondent talks about the radiologists of the Bryansk region who take soil samples to detect radiation in the area after the Chernobyl accident.

A radiologist unscrews a cone from the ground and places soil samples in a plastic bag.

A radiologist approaches a UAZ-2206 vehicle with a bag of soil.

Margarita Goncharova, a radiologist at the Bryansk Hydrometeorological Center, talks about the density of contamination in the area and compensation payments to the population for harmful effects.

The UAZ-2206 vehicle starts moving.

Hands in rubber gloves mix the soil in a basin.

The arrow and display of the scales say "Tyumen".

A female radiologist walks down the corridor with a soil sample, places the soil in the dosimeter cylinder, and looks at the graph on the computer monitor.

A view of the situation in the radiological control office.

People are queuing in the corridor to receive monthly benefits for victims of the Chernobyl accident.

A woman is signing a document to receive benefits, an employee is near the telephone.

A monument-sign says "1956 Mirny".

People on the street of the village, a boy on a cyclist, a woman on a bench, children playing on the street, laundry drying on a clothesline, bicycles at the entrance to the house, women with a baby sitting on a bench, a woman with a child in her arms, an old woman in a headscarf, women and children in the garden.

A man digs the ground in the garden with a shovel, a woman comes out of the gate of the village house, a woman walks along the road, a woman paints the window frames of the hut, a boy squats by the road, women with baby carriages walk along the street, a UAZ-2206 car with the inscription "Medical Service".

Children playing on the playground of the kindergarten.

The radiologist looks at the device, talks about the high level of radiation on the territory of the kindergarten.

Children play in the sandbox, swing on the swings.

Children pass by the radiologist with a dosimeter.

The dosimeter arrow shows five hundred microroentgen per hour.

Cooks in the canteen peel potatoes and put them in a basin of water.

The canteen hall in the kindergarten.

Children with chairs enter the dining room and sit at tables with plates.

Children eat soup with spoons at the tables.

Grigory Kust, head of the mobile radiological laboratory, places potatoes taken from the kindergarten in the village of Mirny into the radiation analyzer.

Grigory Kust, head of the mobile radiological laboratory, talks about the high proportion of radiation in milk samples.

Children eat porridge and soup in the soaking room.

Children swing on swings, a girl looks into the camera lens, children play in a car on the playground, a child near a car tire lying on the playground, children climb the ladder on the playground.

A radiologist with a dosimeter walks around the playground, children near the swings.

Irina Shkuratova, a resident of the village of Mirny, talks about an attempt to move to a radiation-free zone in 1995 and returning.

A sheet is drying on a line outside, a woman is hanging out laundry.

A man with a suitcase on wheels and a woman are walking along the sidewalk near a house.

Women in national costumes are walking along the street.

View of a fence and a wooden house.

Girls on bicycles are riding along the road.

A woman in a national costume is walking along the street.

Laundry is drying in the street.

A man with a suitcase on wheels and a woman are walking up the stairs in a building entrance.

Elena Podvinnikova, a Canadian Doukhobor, is sweeping the floor in her room and talking about life in the new settlement of Mirny.

Children are running around an abandoned construction site.

Tatyana Limanova, a correspondent on the street, is talking about the relocation of residents from the radiation zone to the clean settlement of Mirny.

Unfinished houses and children at the construction site.

View of the unfinished workshop of the radio components plant.

Interiors of the workshops of the unfinished plant.

People are walking along the sidewalk of the settlement.

A woman is pushing trays of bread from the bakery in a cart.

The woman takes a tray of bread and goes up the steps.

Children and a teacher in a classroom, children are sitting at desks in a classroom, a boy is running his finger along a page in a book.

Kamozha Vera, a teacher and a resident of "new" Mirny, is talking about people who refused to leave the territory of the settlement of "old" Mirny contaminated with radiation.

View of the fence, houses on the street of the settlement of "new" Mirny.

Children, a dog and cyclists on the street.

Residents of the settlement are watching a concert of local artists in the club hall, women are dancing in ballroom dresses.

A band sawmill is working, a log is being sawed into boards.

A man is stacking boards.

A worker is securing a log in a band sawmill.

A worker is smoking near the sawmill.

A man is sawing a log with a chainsaw.

In the workshop of the plant, Limanova Tatyana, a correspondent, is talking about the peat briquette plant.

Abandoned equipment and pipes in the workshop of the peat briquette plant.

An empty workshop of the plant, pipes, a control panel with buttons, a swinging hook of a crane.

Two men in a boat on the river.

A man in a boat approaches the shore.

A man gets out of the boat and shows the catch in a sack.

A view of the river, buildings and workshops of the peat briquette factory.

A painting of tractors and buildings and a workshop of the peat briquette factory.

Poachers sell radioactive fish and crayfish in the dark at the market.

A man puts crayfish in a bucket, illuminated by a flashlight.

Evening, a window of a house is lit.

A woman spins thread, the spinning wheel spins.

A herd of cows walks along the road.

Women indoors lay out lumps of sheep's wool on the table.

A skein of thread on the windowsill.

Samples of quilts made of sheep's wool.

Women from the Doukhobor community sort and tug at the wool with their hands.

Lyubov Vlasova, a Doukhobor, a resident of the "new" Mirny, speaks of the Doukhobor faith.

Young and old members of the Doukhobor community sing a song in the room.

Women in national costumes walk down the street.

A woman from the Doukhobor community talks about the residents of the "old" settlement of Mirny located in the radioactive zone.

Women from the Doukhobor community in national costumes sit on a bench at the entrance to a house and sing a song.

An accordionist plays the accordion in the club of the "old" settlement of Mirny, a woman on the stage sings ditties.

Nikolai Soroka, the choir director, sings a song about the settlement of Mirny together with the choir.

A goat butts near the building of the peat briquette plant.

A man drinks from a bottle.

A road sign for Mirny and a view of tractors in a field.

Children play in the street.

A man processes a log with an axe.

A woman asks for help standing on the street, looking into a video camera at the President of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

A man extends his hand to another man and helps him get out of a ditch.

Storks in a nest.

People in the corridor stand in line for a monthly benefit for victims of the Chernobyl accident.

A woman recounts the money she received at the cash register.

A UAZ-2206 with the inscription "Medical Service" drives along the street of the village.

Children in the sandbox, a child hits a girl who falls.

A dosimeter beeps in the foreground, in the background, children on the playground.

Children play in the sandbox.

A radiologist with a dosimeter walks around the cafeteria in a kindergarten, children sit at tables and eat.

A monument-sign with the inscription "1956 Mirny", smoke over a field.