Chernobyl’s ghost town
The sarcophagus covering part of the old Chernobyl nuclear power plant looms in the distance behind graffiti of a screaming child in the city of Prypiat.
Prypiat is now a ghost town, having fallen victim to the worst nuclear power accident in history. It was evacuated after a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl plant twenty-seven years ago, on April 26, 1986, sending a cloud of radioactive dust up into the air.
Before: Pedestrians walk down the street in Prypiat in 1982, four years before the Chernobyl disaster.
After: The area stands abandoned 25 years after the nuclear reactor explosion.
Before: People bustle through Prypiat in 1982.
After: The city stands empty and choked with undergrowth almost 30 years later.
A crucifix stands in the deserted city.
Scattered furniture, debris and a broken cello lie inside a building.
A child's gas mask and a broken doll sit on rusty bed frames inside an old kindergarten.
Another child's gas mask and a shoe lie covered in dust and leaves.
Graffiti adorns a peeling wall inside a building.
A sports gym stands empty, save a few pieces of rusted equipment.
A clock hangs on the wall of an old swimming pool.
Disused appliances litter a room.
Old Soviet placards lie piled up in a building.
Graffiti is seen on a wall in the abandoned city.
Rusting amusement rides lie under the snow.
An old ferris wheel stands in the city.
Trees grow thickly by the roadside.
The ghost town is seen from above.
