An abandoned merry-go-round in the park of Pripyat, a town close to the Chernobyl nuclear plant, which was urgently evacuated after the 1986 disaster.02.12.2006#139379
A monument to firemen who extinguished the Chernobyl nuclear plant Unit 4 conflagration immediately after the disaster.02.12.2006#139373
Maintenance works on the Chernobyl nuclear plant Unit 4 entombment twenty years after the disaster.02.12.2006#139367
The Chernobyl nuclear plant fatal Unit 4 in its iron-and-concrete entombment twenty years after the disaster.02.12.2006#139366
After the April 26, 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, its reactor was tightly sealed and put on a massive shielder. 29.08.1986#135861
An accident happened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station on April 26, 1986. The Chernobyl electricity plant as seen from the fourth power unit. 29.04.1986#139731
The destroyed forth block of the Chernobyl NPP is covered by a concrete sarcophagus. After the disaster of April 26, 1986 its construction was completed. The nuclear reactor is sealed. 20.12.1986#140843
Liquidators of Chernobyl nuclear plant accident aftermath using helicopters to measure the level of area radiation and decontamination26.04.1986#141522
Remembrance. A Chernobyl relief veteran at the Firemen Memorial in Vishnevy, close to the Chernobyl nuclear plant27.04.2006#127024
The Belorussian village of Strelichevo in the Khoiniki district of the Gomel Region, 3 km away from the Chernobyl NPP restricted zone. After the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl NPP a majority of residents left the village.21.04.2006#126230
An employee with the Polesye State Radiation-Ecological Preserve measuring radiation at backyards in the Gubarevichi village (the Gomel Region, the Khoiniki district). The village is 3 km away from the restricted zone around the Chernobyl NPP. After the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl NPP a majority of residents left the village. Now eight families live here.21.04.2006#126220
The Belorussian village of Babchin in the Gomel Region after the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl NPP is within the Chernobyl NPP restricted zone.21.04.2006#126231
An employee with the Polesye State Radiation-Ecological Preserve measuring radiation at backyards in the Gubarevichi village (the Gomel Region, the Khoiniki district). The village is 3 km away from the restricted zone around the Chernobyl NPP. After the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl NPP a majority of residents left the village. Now eight families live here. 21.04.2006#126214
View of the sarcophagus sealing the 4th power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power station. . 21.04.2006#126209
View of the. sarcophagus sealing the 4th power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power station with the dead city of Pripyat in the foreground. 21.04.2006#126208
View of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant with its steel sarchophagus at the forefront.27.04.1986#104812
Stewart Luri of the USA's television company CNN undergoing radiation control before entering the rotational Zelyony Mys village on the territory of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.15.01.1987#104017
Radiation-hit Malinovka villagers observing name's day after the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident01.06.1989#101982
USSR State Nuclear Energy Committee experts take test samples from the Chernobyl power plant cooler01.06.1986#90346
A stork nest in the 30-kilometer zone around the wrecked Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station. 01.06.1986#79214
Group of decontamination specialists makes for the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, which happened on April 26, 1986. 01.06.1986#79206
This little girl from the environs of Kiev was badly contaminated in the Chernobyl disaster, and is now in the Minsk hospital No. 1 hematological ward09.03.1990#78950
A 'bread and salt' welcome from the Maryanovka villagers to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor area evacuees. 01.06.1986#78831
After the disaster the experts on board a helicopter take water samples from Chernobyl nuclear reactor refrigerants.10.05.1986#78817
A group of liquidators ready to climb the top of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor after the disaster.10.05.1986#78813
Military hardware, working in the Chernobyl disaster area, undergoing decontamination at the special point of decontamination.30.04.1986#77406
Residents of Apachichi village have returned home two years after one of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's reactors exploded.01.06.1988#77081
Radiation supervisors on the premises of the wrecked Chernobyl nuclear power plant during elimination of the accident effects.27.04.1986#77041
View of the Pripyat town in the first days following the Chernobyl nuclear power accident.26.04.1986#77036
A helicopter making radiological measurements above the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the wake of the disaster. 13.05.1986#76919
Children affected by Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster treated at hematological ward of clinical hospital No. 1.08.08.1991#26999
A churchman at the Ukrainian collective prayer for the Chernobyl disaster victims, St. Sofia cathedral.26.04.1990#25806
A cleaning point, 10 kilometers from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Cars radiation measuring and decontamination. 22.05.1986#24630
The Chernobyl Power Plant immediately after the disaster in the 4th generating unit. The landmark of the damaged reactor is the 150-metre ventilation stack. Whitish and brown spots in the entire territory are signs of decontamination activities.14.05.1986#24023
A soldier of the USSR's armed forces assigned to decon operations at the site of the disaster in Chernobyl's 4th power-generating unit. 14.05.1986#24017
Dosimetrist scout group head Alexander Yurchenko (right) and his assistant Valery Starodumov (left) are walking down the passage of the 30th generating unit adjacent to the breakdown unit. The Chernobyl disaster. 14.05.1986#24016
Yet another crew setting out to conduct decontamination at the site of the disaster in Chernobyl's 4th power-generating unit.14.05.1986#24018
Monitoring radiation of residential and administrative buildings after decontamination.20.06.1986#22952
Health physicists in special suits controlling radiation in the fields of the Chernobyl disaster area.. 01.06.1986#21974
Dealing with the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. Conserving radioactive dust.01.06.1986#21894
