Chernobyl Tourism: 40 Years On, Visitors Flock to Zone
Despite risks and radiation, tourists visit Chernobyl 40 years after the disaster, exploring Pripyat ruins and the Exclusion Zone.
Despite risks and radiation, tourists visit Chernobyl 40 years after the disaster, exploring Pripyat ruins and the Exclusion Zone.
Maria Protsenko, former chief architect of Pripyat, reveals how she coordinated the evacuation of 45,000 residents after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster while wearing only a blouse and sandals, exposing herself to lethal radiation.
Four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Exclusion Zone remains a haunting landscape where nature reclaims abandoned towns, while a few defiant residents and semi-feral dogs persist amid lingering radiation.