Liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. Collection and shipment of contaminated soil in the thirty-kilometer exclusion zone as part of the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. 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. Valery Zufarov/TASS