Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. Pripyat. A city of power engineers of the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant abandoned by its residents after the nuclear accident. On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred in the fourth power unit of the NPP during equipment testing during the reactor shutdown for routine preventive maintenance. Valery Zufarov/TASS