Cycle racer Vladimir Pulnikov, giving an interview after coming second at the Peace Race.01.05.1986#483658
Participants of the 39th World Cycling Race riding along the streets in Kiev hosting one of the race rounds.01.05.1986#483654
Doctors of the Moscow 6th clinical hospital performing an operation to duty operator of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, G. Rusanovsky, who underwent acute radiation sickness of the 2nd degree.01.08.1986#480847
Helicopter decontaminating the area near Cherbobyl nuclear power plant after the disaster.01.07.1986#480831
The forest in the 30 kilometer alienation zone around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant four years after the meltdown.01.07.1990#480718
Residents of the village of Chudyany, which was affected by radiation after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station.01.07.1989#480660
Damaged Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The unit was isolated with a sarcophagus.01.09.1986#468193
The territory adjoining the Chernobyl nuclear plant where 30 centimeters of earth was stripped and buried at a disposal site.01.05.1987#467032
Panoramic view of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Local forest was severely contaminated due to the disaster.01.05.1987#467029
Defendants in Chernobyl accident trial. From left: plant director Viktor Bryukhanov, deputy chief engineer Anatoly Dyatlov, and chief engineer Nikolai Fomin during the trial.07.07.1987#466986
A U.S.S.R Supreme Court panel of judges, presided over by Raimond Brize, center, trying the perpetrators of the Chernobyl disaster.07.07.1987#466984
Kirovo village for refugees from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the disaster.01.06.1987#439959
The village of Chudyany contaminated with radioactive waste from the Chernobyl power station station.01.01.1989#439174
A child born after a disaster on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at a specialised children's home No.1 opened in February 1989. Belarus.01.08.1993#439173
A child born after a disaster on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at a specialised children's home No.1 opened in February 1989. Belarus.01.08.1993#439171
A child born after a disaster on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at a specialised children's home No.1 opened in February 1989. Belarus.01.08.1993#439166
Children born after a disaster on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant at a specialised children's home No.1 opened in February 1989. Belarus.01.08.1993#439161
A deserted house in the Belarusian village of Chudyany which was affected by radiation after the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident.01.07.1989#438878
Abandoned stork’s nest in the village of Chudyany affected by radiation as a result of nuclear accident at the Chernobyl NPP.01.07.1989#438875
Checking the radiation level at one of the villages at the contaminated zone. Exhibition fund.01.09.1991#437851
Soviet cyclists taking part in the 39th World Cycling Race in Kiev hosting the beginning and one of the race rounds.01.05.1986#418044
Borshchyovka village in the Gomel Region, the Republic of Belarus, was evacuated in 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's fourth reactor exploded. The Polesye State Radiation-Environmental Reserve which was established here is off limits to visitors and is guarded by the police.14.04.2009#389168
Babchin village in the Gomel Region, the Republic of Belarus, was evacuated in 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's fourth reactor exploded. The Polesye State Radiation-Environmental Reserve which was established here is off limits to visitors and is guarded by the police.13.04.2009#389166
The checkpoint of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's exclusion zone in Kozhushki village in the Gomel Region, the Republic of Belarus, that was evacuated in 1986 after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's fourth reactor exploded. The Polesye State Radiation-Environmental Reserve which was established here is off limits to visitors and is guarded by the police.23.04.2009#389164
This mutant fir-tree with a deformed trunk and branches, enlarged needle mass and length and chlorophyll deficiency grew in a contaminated area two years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.19.08.1989#359302
Police station at the entrance to the town of Pripyat inside the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station,25.04.2008#309217
Sarcophagus over the destroyed fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power station ("Ukrytiye facility)25.04.2008#309216
The large concrete shelter over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine's Kiev Region.23.04.2008#308625
The ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear plant in the vicinity of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital23.04.2008#308623
The monument to builders of the sarcophagus encasing the blasted Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the vicinity of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital23.04.2008#308622
The ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear plant in the vicinity of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital23.04.2008#308621
The herb, right, that grew two years after the accident on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant two kilometers from the generating unit shows radiomorphosis [a flattened and wide stalk]. Chimerity is not inheritable in plants. A normal herb is demonstrated for comparision [left in the hand]. 14.05.1989#173598
Abandoned radioactive equipment that was used during clean-up operations after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's fourth reactor exploded on April 26, 1986. 29.04.1990#169364
Dosimetrist checks helicopter operating in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster zone. The NPP's fourth reactor exploded on April 26, 1986. 15.08.1986#169281
On April 26, 1986, the fourth reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. After that, the residents of Pripyat town, a district center, built for NPP personnel and their families, had to be evacuated. Right now, only dosimetrists can sometimes be seen on its streets. 15.08.1986#169274
A piglet from a hog farm in the Zhitomir Region, situated 65 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The piglet was born from a breeding sow which was born in the spring of 1987. Instead of an eye a piglet has a big piece of tissue without an iris and pupil. 02.02.1989#169336
Special dosimetrist units constantly measure radiation levels in the fields and forests of a 30-km disaster zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. 21.06.1986#169276
Decontamination work in the 30 kilometer danger belt round the Chernobyl nuclear plant after its disaster of April 26, 198623.05.1986#166329
Survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster of April 26, 1986, were treated in Moscow's Clinical Hospital No. 6. Rescuer Starovoit, aged 27, took part in putting down the fire from its first instants. Apart from bad overall gamma exposure, he had radioactive burns of 34% of his skin. With moist burns and disastrous deficiency of white blood corpuscles, he was treated in an isolated room with antiseptic ventilation to rule out heteroinfection.30.05.1986#166326
Barbed-wire entanglement in a street of Pripyat near Kiev after the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster of April 26, 1986. The sign says: "Contaminated zone!"30.05.1986#166327
Children playing next to a danger sign in the village of Strelichevo, Belarus, 30 kilometers off the Chernobyl nuclear plant. On the restricted zone border, the village did not have to be evacuated after the disaster of 21 years ago. 17.04.2007#150740
Area decontamination in Belarus within 30 kilometers off the disaster-stricken Chernobyl nuclear plant in summer 1986.20.06.1986#149152
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the disaster of April 26, 1986. Emergency helicopters gauging radiation and decontaminating the area.28.04.1986#141818
A monument to firemen who extinguished the Chernobyl nuclear plant Unit 4 conflagration immediately after the disaster. 02.12.2006#139374
