Polesie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve in the Gomel Region

April 1-27, 1998. Belarus. Gomel Region. Forester Sergei Katlerchuk during the planting of a forest for the anniversary of the Polesie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve. The reserve was created on the territory of three districts that were subjected to the greatest radiation contamination after the nuclear accident at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Viktor Tolochko/TASS