Chernobyl exclusion zone, Pripiat rare archive video 1988 1990

On April 27th, 1986, one day after the explosion, the Soviet authorities proceeded to the evacuation of 116, 000 residents living within 30 km around the damaged plant. The area was evacuated in emergency within 30 hours and declared prohibited. The exclusion zone has since remained largely uninhabited, though defying the proscriptions, about 500 people, usually elderly, the samosjoly returned to live there, preferring not to leave the villages and the environments to which they were attached. If one adds to these 116, 000 inhabitants, people outside the zone who were also evacuated later, it is a total of some 350, 000 people who had to suffer the trauma of uprooting imposed overnight and relocation. Patreon: Website: