Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast

February 1988. USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. A road in the thirty-kilometer exclusion zone after the nuclear accident at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred in the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant during equipment testing during the reactor shutdown for routine preventive maintenance. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Valery Zufarov/TASS