Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast

April 1991. USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. Distribution of food to residents of the village of Terehi who returned to their homes in the thirty-kilometer exclusion zone after the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant named after V. I. Lenin. On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the fourth power unit of the NPP during equipment testing during the reactor shutdown for routine preventive maintenance. The entire population in the radiation affected area was evacuated, but some residents returned after the area was decontaminated. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Valery Zufarov/TASS