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The Abandoned City of the Chernobyl Disaster | Pripyat, Ukraine

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View from Polissia Hotel - Pripyat / PripjatPripyat, Ukraine – once home to 50,000 people was swiftly abandoned immediately after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 (Wiki).

For the past 22 years the city has been totally uninhabited with the exception of a few (about 300 or so) elderly people who returned to their homes in surrounding villages.

Today Pripyat remains an empty and dreary desert of concrete, wild animals, and rampant flora. There are plants busting through pavement to reach the sky and wild horses roam free through vast open fields…untouched for 22 years by manking, perhaps for the better.

These are some photos I pulled together from various sources around the interwebs – enjoy!

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Written by Lateef Mauricio

December 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm