Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast

September-October 1990. USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. Archpriest Methodius of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church from Kyiv visiting "squatters" in the thirty-kilometer exclusion zone, near a church contaminated with radiation on the fifth anniversary of the nuclear 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. The entire population in the radiation affected area was evacuated, but some residents returned after the territory was decontaminated. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Valery Zufarov/TASS