Liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. A column of vehicles with liquid for decontamination of contaminated territory on a road in the thirty-kilometer exclusion zone during work to eliminate 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 a reactor shutdown for routine preventive maintenance. Valery Zufarov/TASS