Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Kyiv Region after the accident

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. Machine room of the fourth and third power units (foreground), the fourth and third power units (background) at the V. I. Lenin Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the city of power engineers Pripyat, abandoned due to the Chernobyl accident (background). 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. Valery Zufarov, Vladimir Repik/TASS