Life in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Oleksandr Sirota lives nearby the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. But his childhood memories are of the city most affected by radioactive contamination after the Ukrainian nuclear disaster. He was evacuated from the area when he was nine.

He takes us to Pripyat, a few kilometers away, where he organises tours for tourists and TV crews.

We pass the southern checkpoint of the exclusion zone and are led down ghost streets and abandoned areas of the town that used to be his home. Here, contamination le…
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