Liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident

September - October 1990. USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. A UMP-1 street-cleaning truck knocks down dust during the demolition of houses contaminated by radiation in the village of Kupovatoye as part of the liquidation of the consequences of the accident in the thirty-kilometer exclusion zone. On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the fourth power unit of the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant during equipment testing during the reactor shutdown for routine preventive maintenance. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Valery Zufarov/TASS