Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast

February 15-22, 1987 USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. Abandoned bird nest in the thirty-kilometer exclusion zone due to the accident at the fourth power unit of 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 exact date of the photo is unknown. Valery Zufarov/TASS