Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast

September-October 1990. USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. Archpriest of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church Methodius from Kyiv (center), who came to visit the "squatters" in the thirty-kilometer exclusion zone of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, clarifies the route with the helicopter crew before flying over the damaged reactor 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 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