Liquidators of Chernobyl disaster in the exclusion zone Anatoly Kuzmenkov and Svelan Sazankov (left-right) at the meeting of liquidators in Hoiniki, Gomel region.22.04.2011#902608
Liquidators of the Chernobyl NPP Alexander Kuzmenko, Vladimir Sakovich and Anatoly Kuzmenkov (left to right) inspect a radiation safety machine at the meeting of liquidators in Hoiniki, Gomel region.22.04.2011#902607
Residents milking a cow in their backyard in the village of Rudakov in Khoyniki district, Gomel region, located on the border of the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The village now has about 15 people.22.04.2011#902501
Residents of the Rudakov village of the Khoiniki District of the Gomel Region that borders on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exclusion zone, watch the annual address to the people by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.22.04.2011#902500
Residents of the Rudakov village of the Khoiniki District of the Gomel Region that borders on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exclusion zone, watch the annual address to the people by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.22.04.2011#902499
Staff of the Polesie State Radiation Ecological Reserve conduct a radiation exposure survey on an experimental livestock farm located in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl NPP.22.04.2011#902498
An employee of the Polessky State Preserve checking radiation aty an experimental farm located in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exclusion zone.22.04.2011#902497
An employee of the Polessky State Preserve checking radiation aty an experimental farm located in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exclusion zone.22.04.2011#902496
Resident puts out a grass fire in the resettled village of Rudnoi in the Gomel region, located on the border of the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The village now has five people.22.04.2011#902495
Dry grass burns in a deserted village of Rudnoye in the Gomel Region located on the border with the 30-km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Only five people live in the village now.22.04.2011#902494
Dry grass burns in a deserted village of Rudnoye in the Gomel Region located on the border with the 30-km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Only five people live in the village now.22.04.2011#902493
Dry grass burns in a deserted village of Rudnoye in the Gomel Region located on the border with the 30-km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Only five people live in the village now.22.04.2011#902492
Residents of the village of Rudnoi in the Gomel region, located on the border of the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Rudnoi village now has five people.22.04.2011#902491
Children ride on a swing in the village of Strelichevo, Gomel region, located near the border of the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.22.04.2011#902490
Staff member of the Polesie State Radiation Ecological Reserve conducts a radiation survey in the village of Vorotets, inside the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.22.04.2011#902489
Ksenia and Nina Polyevi with their mother Irina (left to right) return home from school in Savic, a village located on the border with the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone around the Chernobyl NPP. The village was evacuated after the accident but some residents later returned to their homes. Now about 10 people live there. Photo by Andrei Alexandrov.22.04.2011#902488
Employees of the Polessky state preserve plant trees on contaminated land to prevent the wind from blowing radionuclides to neighboring territories.21.04.2011#902006
Employees of the Polessky state preserve plant trees on contaminated land to prevent the wind from blowing radionuclides to neighboring territories.21.04.2011#902005
Employees of the Polessky State Preserve enter the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exclusion zone through the Ostroglyady check point of the Khoinitsky District in the Gomel Region.21.04.2011#902004
Employees of the Polessky State Preserve put on respirators at the Ostroglyady check point of the Khoinitsky District in the Gomel Region before entering the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exclusion zone.21.04.2011#902003
Staff of the Polessky National Environmental Natural Reserve updating the radiation level data on an information stand at the Ostroglyady checkpoint in the Khoiniksky district of the Gomel Region at the entrance to the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.21.04.2011#902002
Employees of Polesie State Radiation Ecological Reserve transport control leaving the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl NPP.20.04.2011#902001
A man passing by a notice with the radiation level data at the Babchin checkpoint in the Khoiniksky district, the Gomel Region, at the entrance to an exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.21.04.2011#902000
A tractor returning from the experimental planting on the fields of the Polessky National Environmental Natural Reserve in the Khoiniksky district of the Gomel Region in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.21.04.2011#901999
Employees of the Polesie State Radiation Ecological Reserve planting trees on contaminated territories. Making forest plantations will help prevent radionuclides from being blown by wind into surrounding areas.21.04.2011#901998