Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast

September - October 1990. USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. A memorial at the site of the death of partisans captured during the Great Patriotic War near the trunk of a dried-up pine tree, which was saved by the liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident after cutting down the radioactive forest due to the nuclear explosion in the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986. The pine tree in the form of a cross was left by the liquidators as a wartime monument, but the tree died. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Valery Zufarov/TASS