Tag: Chernobyl
The meltdown of Chernobyl was not a good thing, but nearly three decades after the catastrophic disaster, it seems to have left behind some beauty too. Apart from the human tragedy, mutated animals, and radioactive wasteland it created, the site of the world’s largest nuclear accident and surrounding areas, provide ruin porn of the highest […]
These old photos posted by Alexander Strannik on his LiveJournal were taken in 1986 in Chernobyl, a few months after the infamous catastrophic nuclear incident. He was part of one of the first major clean up/reconstruction crews, but not one of the “heroes” who “by bravery or ignorance” were working directly at the site of the […]
“Initially about 700 of the elderly returned,” National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig tells DAZED. “At first, the authorities declared them illegal residents and tried to have them removed, but then they realized that these people had lived there for their whole lives. There was no mobility in the former Soviet Union, so to generations of people, Chernobyl […]
Twenty-seven years after the Chernobyl disaster, researchers are surprised to find that animals in the fall out zone don’t actually glow in the dark. Mary Mycio, author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, spent several months wandering through the exclusion zone, the evacuated area hit hardest by the fall out, and calls it a […]
